{"id":23,"date":"2008-04-09T11:20:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T03:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2008-07-18T09:30:30","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T01:30:30","slug":"more-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/more-power\/","title":{"rendered":"More Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We're getting into summer in the Philippines, and I was just worrying how hot my Thinkpad R51e was running. Its 32 degrees in the room, and my CPU is running at a consistent 73 degrees, according to<\/p>\n<pre>cat \/proc\/acpi\/thermal_zone\/THM0\/temperature<\/pre>\n<p>which seems a bit unhealthy. My motherboard fried itself twice last year, and I figure that might have had something to do with it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I started casting around for things to reduce the power consumption, and found this powertop utility, apparently developed by Intel. (http:\/\/www.lesswatts.org\/projects\/powertop\/) You can download it and install it from the site, but I just did a quick<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get install powertop<\/pre>\n<p>and that seemed to work pretty well. When you run it (with sudo powertop), it reports all the things that are keeping your CPU awake and suggests a few things you can do to consume less power. Even better it will make these changes for you, if you press the appropriate letter on the keyboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We're getting into summer in the Philippines, and I was just worrying how hot my Thinkpad R51e was running. Its 32 degrees in the room, and my CPU is running at a consistent 73 degrees, according to cat \/proc\/acpi\/thermal_zone\/THM0\/temperature which seems a bit unhealthy. My motherboard fried itself twice last year, and I figure that &#8230; <a title=\"More Power\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/more-power\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about More Power\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[134,32,30,31],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-notebook","tag-power-management","tag-thinkpad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}