On kernel 3.15.5, thinkpad T540p IDPS display, intel graphics
I'm still getting bogus numbers for devices.
Snapshot #1:
- My wifi card is certainly not using 12.7W
- Display backlight + wifi = 17.9W, which means the entire laptop
would be running on 2W? That's of course wrong
- The 1117 wakeups are not accounted for and apps blamed correctly for
that use
The battery reports a discharge rate of 19.8 W
The estimated remaining time is 2 hours, 37 minutes
Summary: 1117.0 wakeups/second, 182.7 GPU ops/seconds, 0.0 VFS ops/sec and 9.0% CPU use
Power est. Usage Events/s Category Description
12.7 W 36.3 pkts/s Device Network interface: wlan0
(iwlwifi)
5.17 W 8.0% Device Display backlight
322 mW 25.0 ms/s 331.3 Process /usr/bin/enlightenment
179 mW 19.7 ms/s 60.7 Process /usr/bin/X :0 vt7 -br -nolisten
tcp -auth
178 mW 4.8 ms/s 246.2 Process xmms
I blew away my calibration, upgraded from powertop 2.4 to 2.6.1, and now
I see:
The battery reports a discharge rate of 17.6 W
The estimated remaining time is 5 hours, 10 minutes
Summary: 893.0 wakeups/second, 26.4 GPU ops/seconds, 0.0 VFS ops/sec and 11.3% CPU use
Power est. Usage Events/s Category Description
18.7 W 216.8 pkts/s Device Network interface: wlan0 (iwlwifi)
5.16 W 33.0% Device Display backlight
61.0 mW 35.8 ms/s 86.5 Process dpkg
39.4 mW 1.6 ms/s 24.9 Process xfce4-terminal -T window1.10
--role=window1.10 --tab
35.6 mW 8.2 ms/s 133.2 kWork normal_work_helper
How can powertop tell me that my wireless card is using more power than
the entire laptop?
Clearly the calibration didn't work right, but shouldn't the code have checks
for things that are clearly wrong and tell the user what to do to fix them/recalibrate?
Or better, shouldn't it retune the device usage on its own when it finds
something clearly wrong like power use of the laptop being negative
after removing devices, or inconsistent with the basic power usage
calculated during calibration?
Thanks,
Marc
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