Linux Laptop Power Management

The cluster discusses optimizing battery life and power consumption on Linux laptops through CPU frequency scaling, governors, tools like TLP and powertop, undervolting, and comparisons to Windows power profiles.

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EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK Sep 10, 2024 View on HN

One can always set their processors to lower frequency temporarily.

sudosysgen Feb 21, 2023 View on HN

Do you have a discrete GPU? Disable it. Run TLP and powertop to see what uses too much power and to adjust tweakables.

brightball Jul 22, 2018 View on HN

I need to try that cpufreq for battery life...

lostmsu Jul 18, 2020 View on HN

Windows has a power setting, that chooses between CPU throttling and fan speed increase.

Karunamon Jun 15, 2012 View on HN

That's kind of irrelevant anyways, all modern CPU's have speed stepping functionality that can reduce the clock speed while on battery.

rubber_duck Apr 17, 2020 View on HN

But windows has power profiles, intel utilities to undervolt and limit boost clock

matzipan Feb 4, 2016 View on HN

Would powertop be able to help?

eru Oct 1, 2010 View on HN

Have you tried different cpu governors?

catfishx Mar 21, 2022 View on HN

Using auto-cpufreq or other cpu frequency scaling services can make my laptop run way longer than with windows.

khyryk Jun 17, 2012 View on HN

Try using powertop to help tweak power settings Linux may have overlooked by default. It's in the repos, last time I checked.