Linux (Laptop) Power Saving

For server see Proxmox Power Saving.

Concepts

• Processor P-states and C-states
• Generic Scaling Governors
• intel_pstate CPU Performance Scaling Driver
• ASPM

Tips to Extend Laptop Battery Life and accompanying laptop-power-management

Apps

• powertop repo, faq.
• auto-cpufreq

powertop

Install:

sudo apt install powertop

Run:

sudo powertop

auto-cpufreq

Install it:

git clone https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq.git
cd auto-cpufreq && sudo ./auto-cpufreq-installer