Re: battery life
On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 10:56:42AM -0400, Matt Morgan wrote:
On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 3:17 PM old sixpack13
<sixpack13(a)online.de> wrote:
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> > What else can I do to get Fedora not to eat up the battery life so fast?
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> one answer might be "powertop"; it's in the fedora repo's
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Thank you--that was a great suggestion and seemed super promising, but when
I ran it, it found almost nothing to change. Battery life is still really
bad in Linux, fine in Windows. If anyone has any other suggestions, I
sincerely appreciate it!
IIRC powertop shows the current status of things.
Perhaps your drain is intermittent.
I run Mate window manager. Mate's power manager app has a graph
feature that among other things can show battery charge level.
Likely other WM's have similar features available.
Perhaps leave the chart up and look for periods of rapid discharge
vs a consistent steady discharge. If there are periods of rapid
discharge you may be able to match their times and some activity.
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Jon H. LaBadie jonfu(a)jgcomp.com