Help with fc20 NIC power?

William Murray bill.murray at cern.ch
Thu Jan 2 18:29:28 UTC 2014


   Hi all,
         F20 installed, all seems nice - except the power. I am using 
'powertop' which reports 19W
on virbr and 13 on wlp3s0. A full battery last 40mins, c/f 4 hrs on FC19.
My interfaces look like this:

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
         inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
         inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
         loop  txqueuelen 0  (Local Loopback)
         RX packets 45104  bytes 3688208 (3.5 MiB)
         RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
         TX packets 45104  bytes 3688208 (3.5 MiB)
         TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

p5p1: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
         ether 14:fe:b5:b9:0f:56  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
         RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
         RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
         TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
         TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

virbr0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
         inet 192.168.122.1  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 
192.168.122.255
         ether 52:54:00:da:47:5b  txqueuelen 0  (Ethernet)
         RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
         RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
         TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
         TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

wlp3s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
         inet 192.168.1.65  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.1.255
         inet6 fe80::ae72:89ff:fe0b:e550  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
         ether ac:72:89:0b:e5:50  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
         RX packets 32210  bytes 33072577 (31.5 MiB)
         RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
         TX packets 28620  bytes 4325233 (4.1 MiB)
         TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0


I set up the virbr for my VM's - those are currently all off.  I may have
messed up the config, but it was working nicely in F19.
If I switch off the wireless the virbr still uses O(20W). Any ideas
how to debug? I cannot even see config files. Help my laptop battery 
dies NOW.
    Thanks!!
      Bill

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Bill Murray                     ----                       ATLAS
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   Tel:- CERN +41 22 7678432



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