[ltp] Idle wattage

Dan Sawyer linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:18:07 -0700


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How do you spin down the hard drive?

Damien Challet wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 October 2007 10.09:06 Tino Keitel wrote:
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>>>> My T41p, with no dri and no wifi, gets 50 wake-ups/s with kubuntu 7.10,
>>>> which results in a power consumption of 7.7W at idle with minimum
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>> Wow, I get slightly under 10W on a completly idle system on my T23.
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> which is better than the stock ubuntu 7.04 on my T23 1.1Ghz (10.7W, see 
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Idle_consumptions ) Why update this page with 
> your settings?
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> Somebody reports 7.4W for a T40.
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How do you spin down the hard drive? <br>
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Damien Challet wrote:
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        <pre wrap="">My T41p, with no dri and no wifi, gets 50 wake-ups/s with kubuntu 7.10,
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    <pre wrap="">Wow, I get slightly under 10W on a completly idle system on my T23.
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which is better than the stock ubuntu 7.04 on my T23 1.1Ghz (10.7W, see 
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Idle_consumptions">http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Idle_consumptions</a> ) Why update this page with 
your settings?

Somebody reports 7.4W for a T40.


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