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  1. The power-management of the Lenovo T14s Gen4 AMD Ryzen has gotten significantly better in Kernel 6.17, WOW !!

    5.77 W battey discharge with the 2,8K OLED display on 40% brightness and just 620.4 wakeup/s that is *a ton* better than anything, I've seen with that device in the last 2,5 years.

    The powe-rmanagement for the Ryzen Pro CPUs was notoriously bad on linux.

    My last test, which was shortly after the release of Fedora 42 was stil in the 7.8-8.0W range ...

    Slowly that laptop is getting feasable on Linux 🙂

    #linux #fedora #Kernel617 #powertop #lenovo #thinkpad

  2. #H4ckseed Nueva Entrada: Powertop - Consumo de Energía en Linux

    La herramienta permite mostrar y exportar informes sobre la tasa de descarga estimada y estadísticas del comportamiento de procesadores y dispositivos. Es una utilidad gratuita y de código abierto desarrollada por Intel para monitorizar el consumo energético, también permite ajustar fácilmente algunos parámetros del kernel sobre la marcha para maximizar la duración de la batería...

    #linux #Powertop

    h4ckseed.wordpress.com/2025/09

  3. Puzzled by what I'm seeing in #powertop on Fedora 42 in the list of things keeping the CPU awake:

    - What is this "tick_nohz_handler" thing? I tried looking it up on the web, never found a clear answer.

    - Why would gnome-text-editor be the only app waking up the CPU 59-60 times per second at all times?

    #Linux #powermanagement #energyefficiency

  4. A chaque fois que j'essaie de lancer #powertop sur mon serveur #proxmox , peu importe ce que je fais, le serveur finit par planter, dès fois juste en lançant l'outil.

    Ca m'énerve un peu.

  5. Why does #powertop only show how much wattage it's discharging and can't it show how much wattage it's charging?

  6. Every year, out of curiosity, I check what #powertop measurements look like on #Linux.
    With #Fedora 39 + #Wayland GNOME Shell 45.2 on an Intel Kabylake chipset & GPU, idling with no web browser or email/chat client running, it seems I still can't get below ~120-180 wakeups per second, about 60 to 120 of which are "tick_sched_timer"; I haven't been able to find out why that is.

    Is anyone aware of further optimization work going on that might bring us closer to zero? What's the limit?

  7. @benjamincodes @itsfoss This allows you to use basic tools that like cat and echo the read/write arbitrary details of any aspect of the OS or device drivers. No need for special software that implements custom syscalls.

    For example I have a script /etc/rc.local that tweaks battery optimization settings at system startup with basic shell commands.
    #powertop #bash #busybox

  8. After replacing #TLP with Power Profiles Daemon (#PPD) and #Powertop, my #Framework laptop went to the normal behaviour when suspending on #Fedora

    For suspending to idle (#s2idle), the total battery drain of a full night (9:45 hours) has been of 4%, which means we've went from 1.55%/hour to 0.41%/hour.

    (Ref: fedi.gvisoc.com/@gabriel/11113)

  9. Been checking the power consumption on my #linux laptop today.

    #powertop reported a ~2-5W drain from a device called `nic:docker0`.

    #docker was just running - no containers were active. Hadn't been using it for months.

    Quick "nic:docker0" search turned up a reddit thread saying it was a virtual network bridge, and the default settings didn't turn it off **ever**.

    `ifconfig docker0 down' and the drain was gone.

    More info in this person's blog post:

    gushiciku.cn/pl/2BLN

  10. With energy prices soaring here is an easy fix to reduce energy consumption across your linux machines. #greencomputing #linux #powertop

    github.com/fenrus75/powertop

  11. #Linux #lessonlearned

    Früher, als ich #intel laptops nutzte habe ich alle möglichen stromspar tools genutzt, um eine bessere Akkulaufzeit zu erzielen. Da gab es #powertop , #laptop-mode-tools , #thermald oder #tlp . So ist man zum Beispiel von 8 Watt auf 5 Watt im Idle gekommen und das hatte eine Menge bewirkt. Mit schrecken stellte ich zuerst fest, dass viele der Tools für AMD nicht ordentlich funktionieren. Allerdings, auch ganz ohne tools hat mein AMD Ryzen Laptop nur 4.5 Watt idle... Mega

  12. @michel_slm @mntmn

    PowerTop has options for measurements over time.

    'powertop -t <lengthOfTime>'

    Also, '-r' or '-C' to designate the output as a html or csv file respectively.

    #powertop

  13. The changes I've made are as follows:
    - Reduce screen resolution. I really don't require 4k the majority of the time.
    - Install #powertop and #tlp.
    - Configure the built-in power settings to better fit my use.
    - Update GPU settings so it's not in "performance" mode all the time.
    - Remove any unnecessary applications on startup. There were actually quite a few things here which helped a lot.
    - Turn off #Bluetooth.
    - Adjust screen brightness and disable automatic brightness.