Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Jan 2014 22:11:15 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [QUERY] Power consumption on a 2013 MBP |
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On Tue 2013-12-31 15:24:00, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > Hi, > > On a 2013 Macbook Pro, Linux consumes 21W of power while OS X consumes > just 9W. I found this very disturbing; Linux more than halves the > battery life of the device. I checked to see that I wasn't running any > especially power-hungry applications or drivers (using powertop). I'm > using just one proprietary driver: the broadcom-wl wireless driver; > otherwise, I'm running the stock 3.12 kernel from Arch's repositories. > > How do I figure out what is consuming power, and what can I do to help > minimize consumption?
USB usually does that. Try rmmoding hcd(s). If that does not help, try removing other modules. Oh and try without that broadcom-wl driver. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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