如何分析powertop的输出以增加电池寿命

Question

我是使用 12.04LTS 的 ubuntu 新手。请按步骤帮助我。谢谢大家。

anoy@ubuntu:~$ cat /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode
5

PowerTOP 1.97 概览 空闲状态 频率状态 设备状态 可调参数

电池报告的放电率为 21.7 W

总结：551.2 次唤醒/秒，0.0 GPU 操作/秒和 0.0 VFS 操作/秒

            Usage       Events/s    Category       Description
         43.7 ms/s     229.1        Process        /usr/lib/firefox-trunk/fi
         17.0 ms/s     109.0        Process        /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /var/
          2.1 ms/s      42.7        Timer          tick_sched_timer
          4.2 ms/s      35.5        Process        metacity
          1.1 ms/s      34.9        Timer          hrtimer_wakeup
        184.2 ms/s     16.9        Process        [loop0]
          1.4 ms/s      16.1        Interrupt      [44] i915
          1.5 ms/s       8.4        Interrupt      [16] ehci_hcd:usb1
          2.7 ms/s       6.7        Process        /usr/bin/ibus-daemon --xi
        585.4 ms/s      7.4        Interrupt      [7] sched(softirq)
        289.0 ms/s      6.2        Process        mount.ntfs /dev/disk/by-uuid
          1.4 ms/s       5.5        Process        /usr/lib/bamf/bamfdaemon
          2.0 ms/s       5.2        Process        gnome-terminal
          1.6 ms/s       3.6        Process        unity-2d-shell
          0.8 ms/s       2.9        Process        unity-2d-panel
          7.1 ms/s       0.1        kWork          ieee80211_scan_work
          0.8 ms/s       2.5        Process        //bin/dbus-daemon --fork
         61.4 ms/s      2.5        Process        [ktpacpi_nvramd]
        382.4 ms/s      2.1        Process        /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daem
        193.2 ms/s      2.0        Interrupt      [4] block(softirq)
          2.2 ms/s       0.9        Process        /usr/bin/python /usr/shar
        317.0 ms/s      1.5        Process        /usr/lib/at-spi2-core/at-spi
          4.0 ms/s       0.0        Process        [kworker/u:2]
        168.6 ms/s   1.0        Process        /bin/dbus-daemon --config-fi
         42.7 ms/s   0.8        kWork          ieee80211_iface_work
         41.7 ms/s   0.8        Process        /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-afc-volum
          5.0 ms/s   0.8        kWork          cfq_kick_queue
        212.1 ms/s   0.7        Interrupt      [9] RCU(softirq)
        313.1 ms/s   0.3        Process        /usr/lib/unity/unity-panel-s
          9.6 ms/s   0.4        kWork          i915_gem_retire_work_handler

电池报告的放电率为 18.7 W

          Usage     Device name
          8.8%        CPU use
         73.3%        Display backlight
         73.3%        Display backlight
         29.8%        Display backlight
        100.0%        PCI Device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chi
        100.0%        PCI Device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chi
        100.0%        PCI Device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chi
        100.0%        PCI Device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chi
        100.0%        PCI Device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chi
        100.0%        PCI Device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chi
        100.0%        PCI Device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chi
        100.0%        PCI Device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chi
        100.0%        PCI Device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chi
        100.0%        PCI Device: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Proc
        100.0%        PCI Device: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE
        100.0%        USB Device: usb-device-04b3-3107
        100.0%        PCI Device: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/81
        100.0%        USB device: EHCI Host Controller
        100.0%        PCI Device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Seymo
        100.0%        PCI Device: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e823
        100.0%        PCI Device: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generat
        100.0%        PCI Device: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Proc
        100.0%        Radio device: rtl8192ce
        100.0%        USB Device: usb-device-8087-0024
        100.0%        PCI Device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chi
         71.1 pkts/s  Network interface: wlan0 (rtl8192ce)
          0.0 pkts/s  Network interface: eth0 (r8169)
          0.0 rpm     Laptop fan
          0.0%        Radio device: thinkpad_acpi
          0.0%        Audio codec hwC0D0: Conexant
          0.0%        Audio codec hwC0D3: Intel

可调参数

Bad           Enable SATA link power management for /dev/sda<br/>
Bad           NMI watchdog should be turned off<br/>
Bad           VM writeback timeout<br/>
Bad           Autosuspend for unknown USB device 1-1.3 (04b3:3107)<br/>
Bad           Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI<br/>
Bad           Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Int<br/>
Bad           Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI<br/>
Bad           Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB<br/>
Bad           Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI<br/>
Bad           Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI<br/>
Bad           Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI<br/>
Bad           Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 po<br/>
Bad           Runtime PM for PCI Device Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Seymour [Radeon HD 64<br/>
Bad           Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Core Process<br/>
Bad           Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI<br/>
Bad           Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB<br/>
Good          Enable Audio codec power management<br/>
Good          Power Aware CPU scheduler<br/>
Good          Autosuspend for USB device EHCI Host Controller [usb1]<br/>
Good          Autosuspend for unknown USB device 2-1 (8087:0024)<br/>
Good          Autosuspend for USB device Integrated Camera (Ricoh Company Ltd.)<br/>
Good          Autosuspend for USB device EHCI Host Controller [usb2]<br/>
Good          Autosuspend for unknown USB device 1-1 (8087:0024)<br/>
Good          Runtime PM for PCI Device Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi<br/>
Good          Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High<br/>
Good          Runtime PM for PCI Device Ricoh Co Ltd Device e823<br/>
Good          Runtime PM for PCI Device Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express<br/>
Good          Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRA<br/>
Good          Wake-on-lan status for device eth0<br/>
Good          Wake-on-lan status for device wlan0<br/>
Good          Using 'ondemand' cpufreq governor<br/>

Answer 1

我在各种机器上对 Precise 12.04 LTS 的好/坏 powertop 设置进行了一些测试。我的研究成果在这里：

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/power-benchmarking/powertop-good-bad-recommendations/results.txt

..以及这里的支持数据：

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/power-benchmarking/powertop-good-bad-recommendations/powertop-good-bad-recommendations.ods

我们在 Precise 中添加到 pm-utils 包中的最佳且风险最小的更改有助于节省笔记本电脑的电池电量。

通过使用高精度万用表，很明显，powertop 的一些“良好”节能建议实际上可能没有那么有用，因此需要大量的试验和错误以及评估功耗的准确方法，以确保您选择最佳配置对于您的硬件。

如果您想了解更多关于Precise在节能方面所做的工作，请参考： https: //wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/PowerManagement