Thinkpad t500

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Hi all everything is going good.

I was wondering the best battery power manager for the laptop. I right now seems like the battery drains fast and it is just idle. when it comes to power managing a laptop I am new at that. I seen posts for CPU frequency what does that mean? My t500 does not seem to have a ATI graphics card 3650 so that is not a issue.

thanks dave

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Many processes are using lots of ram

kwin 38,386K

Krunner 17,632K

Xorg 14,828K

kded4 52,572K seems it go up to 74,xxx

Kmix 16572K

I search the web for info on these and it seems it is know for Kruuner to have this issue but I can not turn them off.

I did however I turned ones that I could to good and mostly device like xd card slot. I use DS cards. Wifi is also good as it the audio see if it gains me any more batter minutes.

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With powertop when I set to bad to good the setting does not last seems it reverts back to the default setting to bad. some of these listed I am sure one cannot manage the power on like PCI device. Would that not cause issues with the system function?

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I need to see what was installed by the installation. It seems that with Kubuntu 14.04 on install it installed thermald along with pm-utilis. I install powertop and I used "sudo pm-powersave true" I am not really sure this did anything, I will have to time it an hour on the battery to see if the power lasts longer. My question is do i keep thermald installed or remove it, this will not cause any conflict to the power saving? I am not new to Linux but I never used it on a laptop this is new ground for me. I read all the info on the web right now it is overwhelming. Edit this config or that config gets very confusing. the above code "sudo pm-powersave true" is running what ever default files there is in pm-utilis. IF any have experience with thermald or powertop which is better or de=oes that depend on the laptop?