Battery consumption with Plasma

Very low battery backup in manjaro Plasma .I do get 5-6 hr backup in windows 10 , but manjaro lasts only about 2-2.5 hr

neofetch

██████████████████  ████████   mohammedbns@mohammed-20ve 
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██████████████████  ████████   OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64 
██████████████████  ████████   Host: 20VE ThinkBook 15 G2 ITL 
████████            ████████   Kernel: 5.13.19-2-MANJARO 
████████  ████████  ████████   Uptime: 5 mins 
████████  ████████  ████████   Packages: 1481 (pacman) 
████████  ████████  ████████   Shell: zsh 5.8 
████████  ████████  ████████   Resolution: 1920x1080 
████████  ████████  ████████   DE: Plasma 5.23.3 
████████  ████████  ████████   WM: KWin 
████████  ████████  ████████   Theme: OrchisDark [Plasma], Orchis-light [GTK2/3] 
████████  ████████  ████████   Icons: Tela-circle-red [Plasma], Tela-circle-red [GTK2/3] 
████████  ████████  ████████   Terminal: konsole 
                               CPU: 11th Gen Intel i5-1135G7 (8) @ 2.400GHz 
                               GPU: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] 
                               Memory: 1129MiB / 7737MiB

powertop

The battery reports a discharge rate of 13.7 W
The energy consumed was 281 J
The estimated remaining time is 1 hours, 20 minutes

Summary: 1008.3 wakeups/second,  0.0 GPU ops/seconds, 0.0 VFS ops/sec and 8.3% CPU use

                Usage       Events/s    Category       Description
              1.4 ms/s     210.0        Interrupt      [27] idma64.0
              3.6 ms/s     192.3        Process        [PID 779] /usr/bin/kwin_x11
              2.6 ms/s     109.4        Process        [PID 383] [irq/68-MSFT0001]
             12.4 ms/s      83.5        Process        [PID 778] /usr/bin/kwin_x11
              1.8 ms/s     100.4        Timer          tick_sched_timer
              9.8 ms/s      83.5        Process        [PID 817] /usr/bin/plasmashell
             16.5 ms/s      35.2        Process        [PID 527] /usr/lib/Xorg -nolisten tcp -background none -seat
              4.1 ms/s      32.6        Process        [PID 2966] /usr/bin/konsole
            214.2 us/s      19.8        kWork          engine_retire
            204.4 us/s      16.3        Process        [PID 13] [rcu_preempt]
            291.6 us/s      11.1        Interrupt      [0] HI_SOFTIRQ
              6.6 ms/s       5.5        Process        [PID 3009] /usr/bin/systemmonitor
             60.8 us/s       8.4        kWork          psi_avgs_work
             26.9 us/s       7.5        kWork          rps_work
            118.8 us/s       7.4        kWork          __intel_wakeref_put_work
            170.8 us/s       6.7        kWork          __i915_gem_free_work
            334.6 us/s       6.0        Interrupt      [175] i915
             20.1 us/s       5.4        kWork          kfree_rcu_monitor
             36.0 us/s       4.8        kWork          kfree_rcu_work
              0.0 us/s       3.7        kWork          intel_atomic_commit_work
             73.6 us/s       3.6        Interrupt      [68] MSFT0001:01
             62.6 us/s       3.5        kWork          intel_atomic_cleanup_work
             67.4 us/s       3.0        Process        [PID 774] /usr/bin/kded5
              2.2 ms/s       2.0        Process        [PID 3019] /usr/lib/ksysguard/ksgrd_network_helper
              2.3 ms/s       1.5        Process        [PID 504] /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/auto-cpufreq --daemon
             87.5 us/s       1.9        Process        [PID 3018] /usr/lib/ksysguard/ksgrd_network_helper
             23.2 us/s       1.5        Timer          watchdog_timer_fn
             21.0 us/s       1.3        Process        [PID 76] [kcompactd0]
              8.0 us/s       1.2        kWork          free_work
             19.1 us/s       1.2        Process        [PID 823] /usr/bin/kaccess
             50.4 us/s       1.0        Process        [PID 865] /usr/bin/kgpg
             25.9 us/s       1.0        Process        [PID 3545] /usr/bin/kate -b
             25.6 us/s       1.0        Process        [PID 1138] /usr/bin/kded5
             24.8 us/s       1.0        Process        [PID 960] /usr/lib/org_kde_powerdevil
             24.7 us/s       1.0        Process        [PID 1161] /usr/bin/plasmashell
             20.7 us/s       0.9        kWork          pci_pme_list_scan
             19.3 us/s       0.9        Process        [PID 3416] /usr/bin/kate -b
             21.1 us/s       0.9        kWork          wb_workfn
              2.3 ms/s      0.00        Interrupt      [27] i2c_designware.0

Create a more aggressive power save configuration.

Linux != Windows :man_shrugging:

I edited your topic title to match what it really is - power consumption on battery.

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Does the AUR package contain the latest changes in the GIT source code ? Or is it preferable to install the source code from the Git ?

AUR usually has a separate package for git-tracking versions.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/auto-cpufreq-git/

Version from AUR is 2021-02-04. I will take the source code from Git and install it (last update: 3days).