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  1. Bug #177895
  2. Comment #35

Comment 35 for bug 177895

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Colin Ian King (colin-king) wrote :

>Guillermo Perez wrote:
>
>I forgot to say that this is on a Dell D830. And the battery runtime has improved a lot anyway from gutsy -> hardy >(from 3.5 hours to almost 5 hours!)

With the tickless kernel setting (CONFIG_NO_HZ) being set in 2.4.24.8, one should also see (small) power savings because of less wakeup ticks per second.