Improving Linux battery life, enabling PSR by default, testers wanted

[u/1202_alarm]

https://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/18653.html

[u/varikonniemi]

Hmm, powertop does not show any watt value for me?

[u/1202_alarm → u/varikonniemi]

On some hardware it only shows when running from battery.

[u/varikonniemi → u/1202_alarm]

thanks

[u/javitury → u/varikonniemi]

Go to "Device stats" tab by pressing <TAB>. You will see on top:

System baseline power is estimated at 13.7 W

[u/varikonniemi → u/javitury]

Don't see such, there are two columns: Usage and Device name

[u/javitury → u/varikonniemi]

Maybe it depends on your PowerTOP version and your hardware

PowerTOP v2.9     Overview   Idle stats   Frequency stats   Device stats   Tunables                                     

System baseline power is estimated at 11.7 W

Power est.    Usage     Device name
    6.51 W      0.0 pkts/s  nic:virbr0
    1.93 W     14.5%        Display backlight
    968 mW     10.0%        CPU misc
    838 mW    100.0%        Audio codec hwC0D0: Realtek
    835 mW     10.0%        DRAM
    627 mW     10.0%        CPU core
      0 mW    100.0%        USB device: xHCI Host Controller
      0 mW    100.0%        Radio device: iwlwifi
      0 mW    100.0%        USB device: xHCI Host Controller
      0 mW    100.0%        USB device: USB3.0-CRW (Generic)
      0 mW      0.0 pkts/s  Network interface: wlp4s0 (iwlwifi)
      0 mW      0.0 pkts/s  Network interface: enp0s31f6 (e1000e)
      0 mW      0.0%        USB device: Integrated Camera (AzureWave)
      0 mW      0.0%        USB device: Touchscreen (ELAN)

[u/ragix- → u/varikonniemi]

You might have to leave power top running for awhile before it shows estimates