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bilgee0629

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Registered: 2011-01-29

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Why do Archlinux eats up more battery?

Why do Archlinux eats up more battery, having less memory-usage, than Windows?

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2011-10-20

Posts: 1,247

Re: Why do Archlinux eats up more battery?

Without quantification or other references, this is just idle trolling.

Meyithi

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From: Wirral, UK

Registered: 2009-06-21

Posts: 550

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Re: Why do Archlinux eats up more battery?

Inherently, the *nix's were/are server OS's and have lots of logging and disk writes, somewhat addressed on linux by things such as laptop-mode, the bsd's still don't make much sense on laptops.  Apps such as irc and system resource apps such as conky constantly cause wake-ups and are often very prevalent on linux boxes, these don't help the issue either.

It's just the way it is, good configuration of laptop-mode-tools and apps such as acpid is necessary to get battery life on par with Windows.

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bwat47

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Registered: 2009-10-07

Posts: 638

Re: Why do Archlinux eats up more battery?

Read the wiki page on laptop-mode-tools and set it up if you haven't already.

jasonwryan

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From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: Why do Archlinux eats up more battery?

Why do Archlinux eats up more battery, having less memory-usage, than Windows?

Because pacman never sleeps...

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