Re: Liunx power consumption on laptops -- Enormous progress in thelast few months

From: Chuck Ebbert
Date: Fri Jul 06 2007 - 12:34:38 EST


On 07/05/2007 03:58 PM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> While it's hard to show "one size fits all" number/percentage, we took a
> bog standard Lenovo T61 laptop (no vendor preference, they just were the
> first one to deliver a model with the latest Intel chipset to our cubes)
> and measured the effect. The baseline we used was a 32 bit Fedora 7
> installation; note that this already has the tickless kernel, but is
> lacking several of the key bugfixes that came afterwards.
>
> We've put our measurements in a graph at
>
> http://ww.linuxpowertop.org/results.php
>
> With kernel fixes and features, the power consumption of this laptop
> went from 21.06 Watts to 18.25 Watts; with 2 additional userspace fixes
> the power consumption ended up at 15.5 Watts.
>

Where is the ondemand-fix.patch? I can't find any link to it.

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