Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2013-03-24 Thread Mathieu Baudier
I was not happy with the power consumption of CentOS 6 x86_64 on a new Lenovo Thinkpad x220 Tablet and I worked on reducing it. I just wanted to share with the list one of the changes which gave me the most significant improvement. As per http://www.williambrownstreet.net/blog/?p=387, add

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2012-08-09 Thread Mathieu Baudier
These could be bad options for a number of users and since it's set at kernel boot time how can you override it once the OS has booted? Can you disable this without altering boot parameters and rebooting? If the answer is yes than a tuned configuration should be created or altered to set

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2012-08-04 Thread Mathieu Baudier
You could also consider just sticking to tuned and then having a look at the power management options as provided there. tuned-adm list will show you some predefined power management options which *can* be tweaked. I have made many tests with tuned and written small scripts to switch from

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2012-08-04 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 03/08/12 17:05, Mathieu Baudier wrote: As per http://www.williambrownstreet.net/blog/?p=387, add the following kernel arguments to the GRUB boot configuration: pcie_aspm=force i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 i915.lvds_downclock=1 i915.i915_enable_fbc=1 As measured using PowerTop, this made the

[CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2012-08-03 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hello, I was not happy with the power consumption of CentOS 6 x86_64 on a new Lenovo Thinkpad x220 Tablet and I worked on reducing it. I just wanted to share with the list one of the changes which gave me the most significant improvement. As per http://www.williambrownstreet.net/blog/?p=387, add

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2012-08-03 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Mathieu Baudier mbaud...@argeo.org wrote: pcie_aspm=force i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 i915.lvds_downclock=1 i915.i915_enable_fbc=1 Interesting as now I'm using RHEL 6.3 on T400. Would that make the notebook slower? -- http://linux3.arinet.org

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2012-08-03 Thread Mathieu Baudier
pcie_aspm=force i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 i915.lvds_downclock=1 i915.i915_enable_fbc=1 Interesting as now I'm using RHEL 6.3 on T400. Would that make the notebook slower? I did not notice any change in performance so far. (Tested with parallelized, offline, Java build and unit tests)

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2012-08-03 Thread Ned Slider
On 03/08/12 08:05, Mathieu Baudier wrote: Hello, I was not happy with the power consumption of CentOS 6 x86_64 on a new Lenovo Thinkpad x220 Tablet and I worked on reducing it. I just wanted to share with the list one of the changes which gave me the most significant improvement. As per

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2012-08-03 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Hello, | | I was not happy with the power consumption of CentOS 6 x86_64 on a | new | Lenovo Thinkpad x220 Tablet and I worked on reducing it. I just | wanted | to share with the list one of the changes which gave me the most | significant improvement. | | As per