Description of problem: I compared Arch and Mageia power management today. On both system I had razorqt running, cpu governor set to powersave and set all the tunables with powertop to good, wireless turned off from the switch. This was actually a real-life experiment cause I was on a train. What I found is the following: On Arch I got about 26 wakeups/sec while I was reading pdf-s with okular and 14 wakeups/sec when idle, about 16-17W discharge rate On Mageia I did not got below 150 wakeups at all on idle, 10W discharge rate. I repeat both systems were running razorqt, both had the nvidia binary drivers installed, and all unnecessary services were disabled on both (no bluetoth, no cups, no ssh, no samba). The only difference, in regard of services was that Mageia had iptraf enabled, but there was no network activity at all. Anyway,the bottom line is that Mageia consumes more power than Archlinux (I have no other linux OS to compare with), which means less battery time, which affects some people (like me) badly. I don't know if this should be a bug report or a feature request, but please improve Mageia power management. Oh, what I also observed is when the ondemand cpu governor is active, my cpu jumps to a higher frequency level more ofthen, than in Archlinux. The reason I think is the same, more wakeups/sec. My system is an Asus X55Sv laptop, Intel Core2Duo T7500, 2.2Ghz with NVidia 9500M GS, if matters. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
@ Ilyés Did Arch already switch to systemd, too? CC'ing razorqt maintainer. @ Matteo Do you have any ideas?
CC: (none) => marja11, matteo.pasottiSource RPM: (none) => razorqt-0.4.1-3.mga2
I don't think this is a razorqt related issue and it's quite difficult to make a comparison because the two distributions differ quite a lot. Ilyés, does Arch Linux use the same kernel provided by Mageia? Which version of RazorQt are you using on Arch Linux? Is that the same provided with Mageia 2? Same question for all the other applications you use? And so on...
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