On Thu, 7 May 2026 01:00:04 +0100 Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]> said:
so 2 laptops. both running current e same setup. wifi and bt on and connected. i'm sshing-in to run powertop. screen dimmed to 30%. cpufreq polling every 1sec. 1. asus zenbook s16 (ryzen 9 hx370, 16" oled 2880x1800): http://www.enlightenment.org/ss/e-69fc50557db9b0.40270741.png 1.1 now with screen off/blanked: http://www.enlightenment.org/ss/e-69fc54d2a38a55.27419294.png 2. dell xps13 (i7 8550u, 13" LCD 1920x1080): http://www.enlightenment.org/ss/e-69fc51a1b7c853.12885942.png 2.1 now with screen off/blanked: http://www.enlightenment.org/ss/e-69fc52d6f2d197.25724223.png as you can see that big arse oled uses up quite a chunk of power - even at 30%. > On Wed, 6 May 2026 14:00:01 -0700 Marc MERLIN <[email protected]> said: > > what i see is a total power usage (xps13, 8th gen i7) when e is idle, just > updating its stuff like battery, cpufreq etc. screen dimmed to 30% - total > system usage 2.76w. i get 69% of time in c8. 15% in c2, the rest c3->c7 in > small percentages. powertop is not giving me wakeups/sec for any processes. > > > On Wed, May 06, 2026 at 06:16:46PM +0100, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > > On Wed, 6 May 2026 04:22:21 -0700 Marc MERLIN <[email protected]> said: > > > > > > what is the state you want to achieve? is this screen off (dpms) or dimmed > > > or fully on i.e. active you doing things? > > > > Screen is on, but dimmed. > > Powertop is showing lots of wakeups for E, so I was tryinng to lower the > > amount (unless 200-ish event/s is normal for E) > > > > > there is no such rpc - so no point looking for it. what e does to is > > > listen to things going on like screen blanking, or timeouts after idle > > > and dimming things. anything polling will be fairly slow polling - every > > > few SECONDS maybe every second at worst. if anything updates on screen at > > > all it involved e (the wm/compositor) waking up and having to deal with > > > it (over several series of wakeups). e will watch your ac vs battery > > > state and set an internal powersv level and adapt internally to save > > > power. if you had a less ancient e you'd have a cpufreq popup on the > > > gadget with a slider to set various power levels (from powersave through > > > to balanced low, balanced hi and performance). > > > > Attached are the only widgets I'm running. Is there a way for me to know > > which one(s) could cause up to 200 wakeups per second? > > > > I see debian now has E 0.27.1, will that help my situation potentially? > > I can look at upgrading and hoping it doesn't bring new version related > > problems :) > > > > Marc > > -- > > "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - > > A.S.R. > > Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | PGP > > 7F55D5F27AAF9D08 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > enlightenment-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > > > > > -- > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > Carsten Haitzler - [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - [email protected] _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
