Power Efficiency Spaghetti on Linux for Alder Lake (opens in new tab)

quotes a post that says that 9 W idle on a laptop (Framework 13, with a 12th gen intel cpu) is very high ends up getting it down to a 6 watt idle having killed a bunch of services says that higher C-states are better for lower CPU power usage some changes done: nohz stuff, see and tick_nohz_handler isn't showing up in my powertop stats so maybe it's not an issue on my install, but could check disabling some old stuff... then reloading systemctl to verify: $ sudo systemctl daemon-reload "Then ...