Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:59:53 -0800 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Shawn Badger <shawnbadger@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop battery life on FreeBSD Message-ID: <2F8A37C3-178D-48CB-A17A-CBF6CAD86F60@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <497F9683.3080905@gmail.com> References: <497F9683.3080905@gmail.com>
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On Jan 27, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Shawn Badger wrote: > I'm somewhat of a minimalist and don't use X11. I've disabled the > bluetooth adapter, but frequently use my wireless adapter (intel pro/ > 2200bg). Does anyone have any suggestions that could potentially > extend my battery life? Have you tried reducing HZ to 100 (put kern.hz="100" in /boot/ loader.conf and reboot)? Are you running powerd? Look into "sysctl hw.acpi" and "sysctl debug.cpufreq".... Regards, -- -Chuck
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