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kemerhf

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Registered: 2024-04-16

Posts: 2

High battery power consumption

Recently installed Hyprland and after customization I noticed that the battery is draining very quickly.
I downloaded powertop and at idle the CPU load is about 2-3%. And when I give the slightest load for example I sit in firefox and watch videos about starts to jump a lot in the flat to 90%.
Please help me to find out what is the cause and how to fix it. I will attach a photo may help

Kernel: 6.8.5-arch1-1
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 4500U with Radeon Graphics (6) @ 2.375GHz
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX Vega 6
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce MX350

Nikolai5

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From: North West, England, UK

Registered: 2024-01-27

Posts: 51

Re: High battery power consumption

You could review these if you haven't already:
https://wiki.hyprland.org/FAQ/#how-do-i … -my-laptop
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop … management

A hint from hyprland on disabling a couple of things and the arch wiki page on Laptops, specifically the power management section.

Have you used this laptop a lot on Windows recently and noticed a big difference with power usage compared to Linux Hyprland? Or you gone straight into Hyprland and feel like its not doing great?

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kemerhf

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Registered: 2024-04-16

Posts: 2

Re: High battery power consumption

You could review these if you haven't already:
https://wiki.hyprland.org/FAQ/#how-do-i … -my-laptop
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop … management

A hint from hyprland on disabling a couple of things and the arch wiki page on Laptops, specifically the power management section.

Have you used this laptop a lot on Windows recently and noticed a big difference with power usage compared to Linux Hyprland? Or you gone straight into Hyprland and feel like its not doing great?

Hi, I saw on hyprland page what they advise but I think it's not my case as I've also installed it before and didn't seem to have such severe problems, but I'll try to apply their advice. As for why it seems to me that the battery lives less, it's because I also have Windows 11, which holds a charge 2-3 times longer and the processor does not jump so much.