Hi, Yes, they do turning off logging is probably a good one.
Thanks, Dan On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 01:59:50PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Am Samstag, 13. Februar 2010 schrieb Daniel Dalton: > > Hi, > Hi Daniel, > > > > > I'm trying to get as much battery life out of my eeepc as possible. It's > > really good, I can currently get about 5 hours or just over on my > > 1008ha. I've turned off bluetooth, wireless and the screen as I'm > > blind. > > I have also enabled laptop-mode from the debian package > > laptop-mode-tools. > > > > What else can I do to save battery? I read somewhere I can throttle down > > the cpu speed when necessary? Or is this a dangerous procedure? Also is > > it possible to turn off power to the ethernet port as I rarely use > > this... > > > If speed is not so important for you (and I suppose, you need no X), it might > be possible, to throttle your cpu down to 800Hz. When you work in console, > the > clock frequency of your cpu will not be such important to the speed. > > How this is done, I cannot tell. As I am using X, my first choice is > powerdevil, which is X related. Maybe someone else can tell, how hold cpu > clock down in console. I think, it might be a command to the /proc interface. > > This will save some extra power. In BIOS all not necessary interfaces can be > switched off (also the gprs interface, which might save extra power, too) > > Another thing is, to deinstall all not needed services. Some services, like > snort or virus scan, do need some cpu power. Yes, and java might increasing > cpu power was well. > > I suggest furthermore, to deinstall all packages, you do not need. Remember, > every service or process, you are running, might need extra power. > > Ah, yes, one thing may also save power: You can switch off all logging, or do > all lojgging to an SD-card , RAM-drive or USB-stick. Doing so, you can > inhibit > permanently writing to the harddrive, justonly when you need it. If you do > not > need logging at all, just switch it off. > > If you do so, you can switch off the harddrive, which saves power, too. When > you want to write to the harddrive, there is a short delay, but this will not > bother, I think. > > > > Or is what I'm doing now about the best you can do? I'm very happy with > > it, but of course if I can increase it by half an hour or so I > > definitely will. Mainly I'm just using it for taking down notes, and > > every now and then connect to the wifi... > > > > Thanks for any suggestions > > Dan > > > I hope these little tipps might help. > > Good luck! > > Hans > > > > > _____________ > > __________________________________ > > Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
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