Is Puppy Green?

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TomRhymer
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Puppy Green?

#106 Post by TomRhymer »

I don't if it can be considered green, it does allow old computers to stay useful but I wish it had better power management.

On my netbook, I get 5 to 10 hours battery life in WinXP depending on useage. Since I'm usually just reading text or browsing, I get 8 to 10 hours normally. In Puppy, I get 5 hours no matter what. I've tried the CPU scaler, but it doesn't seem to change anything with an Atom processor.
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#107 Post by Aitch »

Hi

It won't - CPU scaler is for Intel chips AFAIK

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#108 Post by TomRhymer »

Aitch wrote:Hi

It won't - CPU scaler is for Intel chips AFAIK

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The Atom IS an Intel chip.
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#109 Post by Aitch »

my bad, intended to say pentium, however.......
search here:

cpufreq: /lib/modules/2.6.30.5/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq
governors: /lib/modules/2.6.30.5/kernel/drivers/cpufreq

aragon
something to do with ondemand vs performance setting, AFAICS

see here

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=28443

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