[ltp] battery drain while asleep?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Shem Multinymous wrote:
> My reading of DRAM specs is that power consumption for self-refresh is
> typically minuscule.

I see.  So, if the EC is placing the DRAM into self-refresh, we should be
able to just ignore it.

> Still, it may be possible to power off unused DRAM modules.
> The Intel 915 (and presumably later) chipsets support memory
> powerdown, and Linux's memory hotplug should be able to make the
> kernel evacuate a range of memory. The BIOS, of course, may choke on
> this.

This is probably not worth the trouble...

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  Henrique Holschuh