Tuesday, July 02, 2024

Re: OpenBSD runs hotter than Linux with same laptop, draws more electricity?

On Tue, 02 Jul 2024 09:54:09 +0100,
Stuart Henderson <stu.lists@spacehopper.org> wrote:
>
> A lot of this is down to Linux having spent more time on optimising
> things for power consumption. Things like choices made in the scheduler
> (deciding which cpu to run a process on) have an effect, especially on
> certain cpu types, as well as code selecting cpu frequencies etc.
>

Also, not all drivers support hardware power saving features. For example,
as far as I know, iwx and similar drivers do not.

--
wbr, Kirill

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