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+ <H1>[Mageia-discuss] Why would runlevel 3 take more power?</H1>
+ <B>Maarten Vanraes</B>
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+<PRE>Op maandag 03 oktober 2011 03:35:44 schreef Norman Carver:
+&gt;<i> Set up a new server for home use (DNS, files, etc.) and
+</I>&gt;<i> was gratified to find it using around 50 watts when the
+</I>&gt;<i> older machine it replaces was using around 90.
+</I>&gt;<i> However, just before sticking it in the closet, I changed
+</I>&gt;<i> it to runlevel 3 since I won't be using the GUI typically.
+</I>&gt;<i> I had assumed this might reduce power usage a bit
+</I>&gt;<i> more, but surprisingly it caused the power draw to go UP
+</I>&gt;<i> by about 3 watts! I thought it a fluke, but verified that
+</I>&gt;<i> this is a real phenomenon: the machine draws about
+</I>&gt;<i> 3 watts less when X and KDE are running than when
+</I>&gt;<i> they are not. Seems like running more processes should
+</I>&gt;<i> cause more power usage. Any ideas what might be
+</I>&gt;<i> causing what I see? Odd.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> I note that:
+</I>&gt;<i> (1) I set kernel scaling_governor parameter for
+</I>&gt;<i> each core to ondemand for any runlevel;
+</I>&gt;<i> (2) whether logged into KDE or just sitting at the
+</I>&gt;<i> DM the power usage is stabilizes at the same level
+</I>&gt;<i> when in runlevel 5;
+</I>&gt;<i> (3) I have not made any power settings in KDE and
+</I>&gt;<i> the power applet is not running;
+</I>&gt;<i> (4) runlevel 5 has all the same services as runleve 5
+</I>&gt;<i> plus: dm and atieventsd.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Thanks for any insights!
+</I>&gt;<i> Norm
+</I>
+Perhaps when X and KDE is running, existing processes have less CPU time, due
+to it and these processes take more power/CPUcycle than X/KDE?
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