Hi, I recently installed FreeBSD 7.1 on my laptop, replacing Arch Linux
and I noticed a significant drop in my battery life (from ~3 hours to
~1.5 hours). I realize that Linux has their tickless kernel, which I
am sure explains the difference, but my question is... is there
anything I can do
On Jan 27, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Shawn Badger wrote:
I'm somewhat of a minimalist and don't use X11. I've disabled the
bluetooth adapter, but frequently use my wireless adapter (intel pro/
2200bg). Does anyone have any suggestions that could potentially
extend my battery life?
Have you tried
Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Jan 27, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Shawn Badger wrote:
I'm somewhat of a minimalist and don't use X11. I've disabled the
bluetooth adapter, but frequently use my wireless adapter (intel
pro/2200bg). Does anyone have any suggestions that could potentially
extend my battery
On Jan 27, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Shawn Badger wrote:
Have you tried reducing HZ to 100 (put kern.hz=100 in /boot/
loader.conf and reboot)?
Are you running powerd? Look into sysctl hw.acpi and sysctl
debug.cpufreq
Thanks for the ideas Chuck. I lowered kern.hz to 100 as you
suggested (does
Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Jan 27, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Shawn Badger wrote:
Have you tried reducing HZ to 100 (put kern.hz=100 in
/boot/loader.conf and reboot)?
Are you running powerd? Look into sysctl hw.acpi and sysctl
debug.cpufreq
Thanks for the ideas Chuck. I lowered kern.hz to 100 as
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:19:31 -0700
Shawn Badger shawnbad...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I recently installed FreeBSD 7.1 on my laptop, replacing Arch
Linux and I noticed a significant drop in my battery life (from ~3
hours to ~1.5 hours). I realize that Linux has their tickless
kernel, which I am
Bruce Cran wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:19:31 -0700
Shawn Badger [1]shawnbad...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I recently installed FreeBSD 7.1 on my laptop, replacing Arch
Linux and I noticed a significant drop in my battery life (from ~3
hours to ~1.5 hours). I realize that Linux has their
