Florian Philipp ha scritto: > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 20:07 +0100, b.n. wrote: > 1. Use laptop-mode if you don't do it by now. Really nice even without > its delayed disk write feature.
Er, I already use it. I wrote it, in fact. :) > 2. Displays are by far the biggest energy consumers. Lower its > brightness as far as possible. Some laptops even allow you to switch its > backlight off - very nice if you are outdoor. That's what I do (Never tried outdoor however). Somehow the pommed daemon seems less granular in managing the screen than OS X, however. > 3. Use the powersave-governor. If you really need the additional power > ondemand offers, try the conservative-governor. It increases the clock > rate slower than ondemand and might stop it from jumping too fast too > high. Thanks for the tip! > 4. Try sys-power/powertop. It shows you processes creating a lot up > wakeups for the CPU. It also gives you tips on your kernel config. Thanks too. I know about powertop but it complains about something not correctly set up in my kernel. I have to do this janitorial work. > 5. Sometimes a BIOS update helps... Well, if it's a BIOS issue, OS X works around it? I think it's just my system suffering some unavoidable limits with new machines, while Apple of course designed OS X around its own machines. > Hope this helps. Thanks a lot! m. -- [email protected] mailing list
