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#219
Originally Posted by Skry View Post
@caveman, again, and other interested parties..
Powertop:
The battery reports a discharge rate of 169 mW
The estimated remaining time is 22 hours, 18 minutes
Display off, kbleds off, wlan on. My not-that-good battery at 90%.
I post my results for comparison. Usecase: powertop at the console, and let it sit there for a while (+1 min) after the screen went blank, no X running, wifi on and connected.
discharge rate @ 66.6mW
estimated remaining is 57 hours
my battery reads 63% charged.

The only power-related changes applied were enabling SR and
Code:
setterm -blank 1
+ cpufrequtils.

Last edited by caveman; 2013-03-08 at 16:37. Reason: forgot to mention cpufrequtils
 

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