Well, so far so good. I've enabled the CPU's auto-frequency governor, which reduces power usage quite a bit, as well as TICKLESS (turns off the kernel's internal heartbeat) and USB suspend (turns off USB connectors when not in use), and so far it still suspsends to RAM nicely. According to Intel's powertop program, I'm saving over a Watt of power, which will increase my battery life some 8% or so. Not too shabby.
I've chosen the name Chi. It's short and easy to type, and just because I wanted to. Kurumi was my second choice.
This morning, I accidentally issued the wrong command to the laptop: instead of suspend, I sent it hibernate, which does not just suspend all operations yet keeps the system "live" in memory, but actually writes out that live image to disk and shuts everything down completely and powers off. To my pleasure, the system came back to life without a hitch when I got into work: the OS booted, saw that there was a pending image, and loaded it. It worked great.
And according to Intel's powertop program, I have about 4.5 hours of battery life if all I'm doing is word processing. Now that's good news. I can take it to the cafe' with me without having to lug the cord.
I've chosen the name Chi. It's short and easy to type, and just because I wanted to. Kurumi was my second choice.
This morning, I accidentally issued the wrong command to the laptop: instead of suspend, I sent it hibernate, which does not just suspend all operations yet keeps the system "live" in memory, but actually writes out that live image to disk and shuts everything down completely and powers off. To my pleasure, the system came back to life without a hitch when I got into work: the OS booted, saw that there was a pending image, and loaded it. It worked great.
And according to Intel's powertop program, I have about 4.5 hours of battery life if all I'm doing is word processing. Now that's good news. I can take it to the cafe' with me without having to lug the cord.
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