I'm using the same sites in the last 4-5 years, and in the last two years
visually they weren't changed. Can it happen that Ubuntu sees 2 out of 4
cells from my battery, and that's why it is showing incorrect results?

On Thu, 13 Dec 2018, 03:55 Daniel van Vugt <daniel.van.v...@canonical.com
wrote:

> Thanks. It appears Chrome is using the most power there, followed by
> gnome-shell which is a result of Chrome and other apps redrawing.
>
> So we can't blame "Ubuntu" for using the battery. The current versions
> of Chrome, and even the sites it visits, didn't exist in 16.04 so you
> can't really compare 18.04 to 16.04 in that respect.
>
> Unless 'powertop' on this machine suggests any kind of low-level device
> or kernel problems, we will need to find a software configuration that
> works (doesn't use so much power). Then we would be able to identify
> roughly when some regression occurred. Without that, this bug is
> presently too vague to do anything with.
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> Title:
>   ubuntu is using half of my battery
>
> Status in The Ubuntu Power Consumption Project:
>   Incomplete
> Status in Ubuntu:
>   Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
>   ubuntu 18.04.1 - gnome-shell 3.28.3 - because of the issues I'm
>   upgrading on a daily basis.
>
>   I'm using the same install of the Ubuntu in the last 3 years just kept
>   upgrading.
>
>   3 years before my battery in full showed 2 hours after that something
>   happened on 16.04, and suddenly showed 4 hours, and I really had that
>   time left. No, it's showing 2 hours again (18.04.1). (issue persist
>   for a while)
>
>   a) Restarting the machine on power
>   b) remove the cable, wait and see that it's only 1,5-2 hours on 1-2%
>
>   I do remember that same test was getting me different result in 2016 /
>   2017 / 2018.
>
>   One simple restart kills 1 hour of the battery - showing 30 minutes.
>   Disabled docker, which hasn't any container deployed on auto-start.
>   (in 2017 there was any issue related to it - problem still persist)
>
>   intel_automic_comic_work activated my cooling system. (but we are
>   talking about 1-2% of cpu usage, so it's really invisible)
>
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