Hello
I have a problem with my Asus laptop about battery consumption because I have only 1h-2h of battery life. Or with windows i’ts 5-6h approximately.
I use powertop and tlp (that I have configured). I tried optimus manager and slimbookbattery with no effects. I tested laptop-mode-tools but I have the same state with tlp.
my computer :
[axeln@axel-tufgamingfx705gd ~]$ inxi -Fazy
System:
Kernel: 5.4.74-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4-x86_64
root=UUID=8ed3f1c2-e467-4c4f-a011-a963420d738d rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.2 tk: Qt 5.15.1 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: TUF Gaming FX705GD_FX705GD v: 1.0
serial: <filter>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: FX705GD v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: FX705GD.306 date: 05/25/2020
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 28.5 Wh condition: 60.0/64.1 Wh (93%) volts: 14.9/15.6
model: Simplo SDI ICR18650 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Discharging
cycles: 41
CPU:
Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-8300H bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Kaby Lake family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: A (10) microcode: D6
L2 cache: 8192 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
bogomips: 36812
Speed: 900 MHz min/max: 800/2300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 895 2: 900 3: 899
4: 900 5: 899 6: 899 7: 900 8: 900
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Split huge pages
Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel
bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:3e9b
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: nvidia v: 455.38 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus ID: 01:00.0
chip ID: 10de:1c8d
Device-3: IMC Networks USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus ID: 1-11:3 chip ID: 13d3:56a2 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 compositor: kwin_x11
driver: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: intel alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa
display ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2")
s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 128 size: 382x215mm (15.0x8.5")
diag: 438mm (17.3")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.1
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci bus ID: 00:1f.3
chip ID: 8086:a348
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107GL High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0fb9
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.74-1-MANJARO
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9560 [Jefferson Peak] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
port: 6000 bus ID: 00:14.3 chip ID: 8086:a370
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8168 v: 8.048.03-NAPI modules: r8169 port: 3000
bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.03 TiB used: 280.46 GiB (26.7%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Kingston model: RBUSNS8154P3128GJ
size: 119.24 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 15.8 Gb/s
lanes: 2 serial: <filter> rev: E8FK11.C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MQ04ABF100 size: 931.51 GiB
block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 0J scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw size: 44.06 GiB size: 43.12 GiB (97.86%) used: 25.01 GiB (58.0%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5
ID-2: /home raw size: 455.31 GiB size: 447.16 GiB (98.21%)
used: 255.40 GiB (57.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
Swap:
Alert: No Swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C mobo: 27.8 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Info:
Processes: 264 Uptime: 22m Memory: 7.63 GiB used: 2.78 GiB (36.4%)
Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 clang: 10.0.1 Packages:
pacman: 1598 lib: 426 flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 running in: konsole
inxi: 3.1.08
with powetop I have that (when i’m on internet cable):
The battery reports a discharge rate of 20.2 W
The energy consumed was 297 J
The estimated remaining time is 1 hours, 45 minutes
Summary: 1587,3 wakeups/second, 0,0 GPU ops/seconds, 0,0 VFS ops/sec and 33,8% CPU use
Power est. Usage Events/s Category Description
15.46 W 0,0 pkts/s Device Network interface: enp3s0 (r8168)
5.68 W 21,5 pkts/s Device Network interface: wlo1 (iwlwifi)
496 mW 99,1 ms/s 78,6 Process [PID 3854] /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 7 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 7266 -prefMapSize 234542 -parentBuildID 202
303 mW 57,9 ms/s 192,8 Process [PID 3220] /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
177 mW 35,8 ms/s 8,5 Process [PID 3018] /opt/Rocket.Chat/rocketchat-desktop --type=renderer --autoplay-policy=no-user-gesture-required --field-trial-handle=
109 mW 21,8 ms/s 16,2 kWork intel_atomic_commit_work
86.5 mW 14,8 ms/s 144,9 Process [PID 1266] /usr/bin/kwin_x11
74.7 mW 14,9 ms/s 13,0 Process [PID 886] /usr/lib/Xorg -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/sddm/{6bc33573-b50c-41f4-be4c-f95522b6b71e} -background none -noreset -dis
69.8 mW 5,3 ms/s 472,2 Timer tick_sched_timer
54.3 mW 10,5 ms/s 28,4 Process [PID 3346] /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 2 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 6276 -prefMapSize 234542 -parentBuildID 202
49.2 mW 9,5 ms/s 25,8 Process [PID 3260] /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
34.8 mW 6,0 ms/s 57,7 Process [PID 2989] /opt/Rocket.Chat/rocketchat-desktop --type=gpu-process --field-trial-handle=17921104425496441948,8515400336391853025
32.3 mW 5,6 ms/s 51,8 Process [PID 3857] /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 7 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 7266 -prefMapSize 234542 -parentBuildID 202
26.9 mW 5,2 ms/s 14,6 Interrupt [7] sched(softirq)
21.7 mW 3,9 ms/s 26,7 Process [PID 3037] /opt/Rocket.Chat/rocketchat-desktop --type=renderer --autoplay-policy=no-user-gesture-required --field-trial-handle=
20.0 mW 2,7 ms/s 71,9 Timer hrtimer_wakeup
I install the open source driver for r8168 with no effect.
I use the last nvidia driver : video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-455-prime and the linux kernel 5.4 lts.
Someone can help me to improve my battery life ?
Edit : today i’m on wifi and I have on powertop :
PowerTOP 2.13 Overview Idle stats Frequency stats Device stats Tunables WakeUp
The battery reports a discharge rate of 17.4 W
The energy consumed was 0.00 J
The estimated remaining time is 3 hours, 8 minutes
Summary: 470,0 wakeups/second, 0,0 GPU ops/seconds, 0,0 VFS ops/sec and 6,6% CPU use
Power est. Usage Events/s Category Description
14.7 W 33,1 pkts/s Device Network interface: wlo1 (iwlwifi)
77.8 mW 19,5 ms/s 49,3 Process [PID 2837] /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 4 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 7155 -prefMapSize 234570 -parentBuildID 202
39.6 mW 9,9 ms/s 31,9 Process [PID 2590] /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
29.1 mW 7,3 ms/s 62,9 Process [PID 3474] powertop
16.3 mW 4,1 ms/s 11,6 Process [PID 1289] /usr/bin/plasmashell
12.1 mW 3,0 ms/s 0,00 Timer rtl8168_esd_timer
10.4 mW 2,6 ms/s 1,9 Process [PID 895] /usr/lib/Xorg -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/sddm/{66b1024e-4469-4e76-998d-2b884fa7234d} -background none -noreset -dis
7.44 mW 1,9 ms/s 58,0 Process [PID 2426] /opt/Rocket.Chat/rocketchat-desktop
7.29 mW 1,8 ms/s 4,8 Process [PID 2716] /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 2 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 6276 -prefMapSize 234570 -parentBuildID 202
5.98 mW 1,5 ms/s 12,6 kWork handle_update
5.22 mW 1,3 ms/s 4,8 Process [PID 2536] /opt/Rocket.Chat/rocketchat-desktop --type=renderer --autoplay-policy=no-user-gesture-required --field-trial-handle=
5.15 mW 1,3 ms/s 21,3 Process [PID 2597] /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
3.67 mW 0,9 ms/s 7,7 Process [PID 1253] /usr/bin/kwin_x11
3.24 mW 0,8 ms/s 2,9 Process [PID 1395] /usr/bin/psensor
2.89 mW 0,7 ms/s 6,8 Process [PID 1383] /usr/bin/yakuake -session 101fe1e41e221a000160526638000000013010011_1605308556_249374
2.60 mW 649,6 µs/s 3,9 Process [PID 2295] /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird
I moved my message from laptop to network and wifi because I think the problem is with the network card. But I don’t know why.