Hi all,

I have been running SuSE 10.2 on a dual core laptop for a while (looking 
forward to upgrading to 10.3, but that has to be planned for first).

I have had abysmal battery performance from the start (new machine, new 
battery). I pretty much dismissed this on the "well, Toshiba won't tell anyone 
except micky$loth how to drive their power management stuff, so I'm stuck with 
it.

However, I just shut down beagle (finally! been meaning to for ages) and 
discovered that my battery life more than doubled from about 40 minutes to 95 
minutes. So, now I'm wondering if there are other things I can do to improve 
this further.

Any suggestions would be gratefully received.

In particular, I notice that I seem to have one CPU mostly running full speed 
(1.6Ghz) while the other core is scaling. Can I "encourage" the system to run 
both cores at lower speed? (Can I perhaps shut one down altogether, and if so 
is that sensible?) Anything else that I've not thought of?

Cheers,
Simon
 
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a 
man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz



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