Extend your battery life with scx_rustland

Re:Extend your battery life with scx_rustland by IshKebab on Sunday May 26, 2024 @02:13AM (#40480105)

20% improvement is nice... but Linux laptops are like a factor of 4-8 behind Macs, at least without a lot of tweaking. I was in a Google Meet meeting on mine (mid-to-high spec Dell) and it lasted exactly 1.5 hours.

Feels like there are bigger issues than the scheduler.

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Re:Extend your battery life with scx_rustland by tetris11 on Sunday May 26, 2024 @04:06AM (#40480442)

TPM enabled?

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Re:Extend your battery life with scx_rustland by IshKebab on Sunday May 26, 2024 @04:28AM (#40480543)

I guess so, it's only a couple of years old. Does that make a difference?

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Re:Extend your battery life with scx_rustland by tetris11 on Sunday May 26, 2024 @05:19AM (#40480750)

Its night and day for me.

I think its enabled by default on Fedora and maybe Ubuntu, but definitely not on Debian, Arch or Guix.

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Re:Extend your battery life with scx_rustland by IshKebab on Sunday May 26, 2024 @10:21AM (#40482394)

Worth a try at least. Though based on the fan speed while I'm in meetings I reckon it might be more to do with missing hardware video acceleration in Firefox or something.

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Re:Extend your battery life with scx_rustland by rlpb on Sunday May 26, 2024 @07:56AM (#40481472)

That sounds like the browser isn't doing video codec offload to me.

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