Final set of results from the Power Management Blueprint
 

On 28/03/12 14:46, Colin Ian King wrote:
> Now beta2 is nearly here I ran some (very simple) tests last night and
> this morning on Unity 2D vs 3D to see how they compare in terms of
> power consumption on a HP Mini 210 (Atom N450) and a Lenovo X220i
> (Sandybridge, i3).

Awesome work, Colin. Thank you! Both for the reporting and the
improvements in 12.04.

Should we be worried about the 100mA idle delta between 2D and 3D on the
Lenovo?

Mark

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On 28/03/12 17:09, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:

On 28/03/12 14:46, Colin Ian King wrote:

Now beta2 is nearly here I ran some (very simple) tests last night and
this morning on Unity 2D vs 3D to see how they compare in terms of
power consumption on a HP Mini 210 (Atom N450) and a Lenovo X220i
(Sandybridge, i3).


Awesome work, Colin. Thank you! Both for the reporting and the
improvements in 12.04.

Should we be worried about the 100mA idle delta between 2D and 3D on the
Lenovo?


It is of interest to find out why this is, so I will see if I can find
out what is the root cause, but it could be anywhere in the layers of
sub-systems.


Colin



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Final set of results from the Power Management Blueprint
 

On 28/03/12 17:09, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:

On 28/03/12 14:46, Colin Ian King wrote:

Now beta2 is nearly here I ran some (very simple) tests last night and
this morning on Unity 2D vs 3D to see how they compare in terms of
power consumption on a HP Mini 210 (Atom N450) and a Lenovo X220i
(Sandybridge, i3).


Awesome work, Colin. Thank you! Both for the reporting and the
improvements in 12.04.

Should we be worried about the 100mA idle delta between 2D and 3D on the
Lenovo?


I've dug into this by comparing wakeup events and process activity over
100 seconds of idle time for 2D vs 3D. The only easily noticeable
difference between 2D and 3D in this respect is that 3D has compiz
running and it wakes up ~2-3 times a second on average. The CPU
utilisation for this is very small though, ~0.03%, so I am supposing
there may be some GPU activity going on too which may consume some
power. I'm not sure how easy it would be to verify this.


Also, Xorg in 3D seems to be using a very small amount more CPU in 3D
compared to 2D so that may account for a small part of the 100mA.


Apart from that, I'm finding it hard to account as there is quite a bit
of 'noise' in the data I've captured which affects the final analysis.


Colin


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