System Information

PowerTOP Version v2.5
Kernel Version Linux version 3.12.5-302.fc20.x86_64 (mockbuild@bkernel01.phx2.fedoraproject.org) (gcc version 4.8.2 20131212 (Red Hat 4.8.2-7) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Tue Dec 17 20:42:32 UTC 2013
System Name LENOVO 4177CTO ThinkPad T420
CPU Information 4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2620M CPU @ 2.70GHz
OS Information Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)

Power Consumption Summary

463.0 wakeups/second, 85.0 GPU ops/second, 0.0 VFS ops/sec, 166.7 GFX wakes/sec and 6.8% CPU use

Power est. Usage Events/s Category Description
602 mW 1.3% 119.2 Process kwin
211 mW 2.0% 67.9 Process /usr/bin/vlc --started-from-file /home/donnie/Videos/Homeland/Homeland.S03E08.HDTV.x264-ChameE.mkv
175 mW 0.2% 32.4 Process /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start
173 mW 0.0% 17.9 kWork ieee80211_iface_work
105 mW 0.7% 14.6 Process /usr/bin/X :0 vt1 -background none -nolisten tcp -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/kdm/A:0-Lf14Sb
72.0 mW 0.0% 5.3 kWork ieee80211_sta_monitor_work
38.7 mW 1.0% 19.4 Process /usr/bin/plasma-desktop
10.7 mW 0.3% 28.5 Process /usr/bin/konsole
8.41 mW 0.2% 52.2 Interrupt PS/2 Touchpad / Keyboard / Mouse
7.46 mW 0.2% 1.5 Process plasma-desktop
6.09 mW 0.2% 42.4 Interrupt [44] i915

Processor Idle state report

Package 0   Core 0   CPU 0 CPU 1
    C0 active 5.1%   4.0%  
    POLL 0.0% 1.1 ms 0.0% 0.0 ms
    C1E-SNB 0.2% 0.2 ms 0.3% 0.4 ms
C2 (pc2) 0.0%    
C3 (pc3) 0.0%   C3 (cc3) 3.6%   C3-SNB 2.6% 0.6 ms 0.5% 0.4 ms
C6 (pc6) 0.0%   C6 (cc6) 0.0%   C6-SNB 0.0% 0.1 ms 0.0% 0.0 ms
C7 (pc7) 0.0%   C7 (cc7) 85.4%   C7-SNB 91.5% 1.2 ms 95.1% 2.0 ms
    Core 1   CPU 2 CPU 3
      C0 active 4.1%   4.5%  
      POLL 0.0% 0.0 ms 0.0% 0.0 ms
      C1E-SNB 0.3% 0.2 ms 0.4% 0.5 ms
     
    C3 (cc3) 2.3%   C3-SNB 1.2% 0.6 ms 0.8% 0.7 ms
    C6 (cc6) 0.0%   C6-SNB 0.0% 0.0 ms 0.0% 0.0 ms
    C7 (cc7) 87.4%   C7-SNB 94.3% 1.6 ms 94.0% 2.1 ms
    GPU 28977680  
     
    Powered On 100.0%  
    RC6 0.0%  
    RC6p 0.0%  
    RC6pp 0.0%  
     
     

Processor Frequency Report

Package 0   Core 0   CPU 0 CPU 1
    Actual 3.1 GHz 3.1 GHz
Idle 38.7%   Idle 39.4%   Idle 40.2% 98.7%
3.40 GHz 21.9%   3.40 GHz 21.5%   3.40 GHz 21.0% 0.8%
3.31 GHz 28.5%   3.31 GHz 28.2%   3.31 GHz 27.9% 0.5%
3.21 GHz 6.6%   3.21 GHz 6.6%   3.21 GHz 6.6% 0.0%
3.10 GHz 1.7%   3.10 GHz 1.7%   3.10 GHz 1.7% 0.0%
2.81 GHz 0.4%   2.81 GHz 0.4%   2.81 GHz 0.4% 0.0%
2.90 GHz 1.4%   2.90 GHz 1.4%   2.90 GHz 1.4% 0.0%
2.71 GHz 0.1%   2.71 GHz 0.1%   2.71 GHz 0.1% 0.0%
3.00 GHz 0.7%   3.00 GHz 0.7%   3.00 GHz 0.7%
2.60 GHz 0.2%   2.60 GHz 0.2%   2.60 GHz 0.2%
    Core 1   CPU 2 CPU 3
      Actual 3.1 GHz 3.1 GHz
    Idle 98.3%   Idle 99.2% 98.8%
    3.40 GHz 1.0%   3.40 GHz 0.4% 0.8%
    3.31 GHz 0.6%   3.31 GHz 0.3% 0.3%
    3.21 GHz 0.1%   3.21 GHz 0.0% 0.0%
    2.90 GHz 0.0%   3.00 GHz 0.0% 0.0%
    3.00 GHz 0.0%   3.10 GHz 0.0% 0.0%
    3.10 GHz 0.0%   0.0%
     
     
     

Overview of Software Power Consumers

Power est. Usage Wakeups/s GPU ops/s Disk IO/s GFX Wakeups/s Category Description
602 mW 13.2 ms/s 79.1 40.1 51.6 Process kwin
211 mW 20.3 ms/s 58.5 9.4 26.3 Process /usr/bin/vlc --started-from-file /home/donnie/Videos/Homeland/Homeland.S03E08.HDTV.x264-ChameE.mkv
175 mW 2.3 ms/s 20.3 12.1 31.6 Process /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start
173 mW 79.6 us/s 5.3 12.6 kWork ieee80211_iface_work
105 mW 7.3 ms/s 9.1 5.5 18.1 Process /usr/bin/X :0 vt1 -background none -nolisten tcp -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/kdm/A:0-Lf14Sb
72.0 mW 0.0 us/s 5.3 kWork ieee80211_sta_monitor_work
38.7 mW 9.6 ms/s 19.4 23.9 Process /usr/bin/plasma-desktop
10.7 mW 2.7 ms/s 28.5 14.1 Process /usr/bin/konsole
8.41 mW 2.1 ms/s 52.2 Interrupt PS/2 Touchpad / Keyboard / Mouse
7.46 mW 1.9 ms/s 1.5 Process plasma-desktop
6.09 mW 1.5 ms/s 42.4 Interrupt [44] i915
6.05 mW 1.5 ms/s 3.2 Process sh
3.22 mW 0.8 ms/s 38.9 Timer tick_sched_timer
2.23 mW 555.1 us/s 0.20 kWork disk_events_workfn
2.19 mW 544.5 us/s 4.9 Process sensors
2.00 mW 497.1 us/s 40.3 Timer hrtimer_wakeup
1.79 mW 445.6 us/s 3.9 Interrupt [9] acpi
1.64 mW 409.2 us/s 15.9 Process [irq/48-iwlwifi]
1.05 mW 260.1 us/s Interrupt [1] timer(softirq)
623 uW 155.1 us/s Timer intel_pstate_timer_func
596 uW 148.4 us/s Interrupt [9] RCU(softirq)
578 uW 143.8 us/s 1.1 0.9 Process kded4
525 uW 130.7 us/s 1.0 Interrupt [7] sched(softirq)
329 uW 81.8 us/s 8.7 Process [rcu_sched]
308 uW 76.6 us/s Timer tpt_trig_timer
292 uW 72.8 us/s 1.5 Process /usr/libexec/upowerd
279 uW 69.5 us/s 1.0 Process grep
274 uW 68.3 us/s Process /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 4 --print-address 6 --session
271 uW 67.5 us/s 5.5 Process /sbin/rngd -f
266 uW 66.1 us/s 0.25 0.1 Process /usr/bin/kmix
252 uW 62.7 us/s 7.4 Interrupt [48] iwlwifi
251 uW 62.6 us/s Process /bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation
232 uW 57.8 us/s Process [kworker/u16:1]
232 uW 57.7 us/s Interrupt [8] hrtimer(softirq)
213 uW 53.1 us/s Process [kworker/u16:0]
212 uW 52.7 us/s 0.20 Process /home/donnie/.dropbox-dist/dropbox
211 uW 52.4 us/s 0.3 0.1 Process /usr/bin/krunner
196 uW 48.7 us/s 4.6 kWork iwl_bg_run_time_calib_work
175 uW 43.4 us/s 0.25 Process /usr/bin/virtuoso-t +foreground +configfile /tmp/virtuoso_TT1792.ini +wait
148 uW 36.8 us/s Timer process_timeout
145 uW 36.0 us/s 0.05 Process /usr/sbin/irqbalance --foreground
134 uW 33.3 us/s 0.4 Process /usr/sbin/thinkfan
122 uW 30.4 us/s 0.25 Process ksmserver
102 uW 25.3 us/s 0.20 Process /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
0 mW 22.2 us/s 0.25 0.1 Process /usr/bin/kactivitymanagerd
0 mW 19.8 us/s Process [kworker/0:0]
0 mW 19.6 us/s Timer delayed_work_timer_fn
0 mW 18.9 us/s 0.10 Process /usr/libexec/mission-control-5
0 mW 12.5 us/s 0.10 Process /usr/bin/knotify4
0 mW 12.3 us/s 0.05 Process /usr/bin/nepomukfilewatch
0 mW 11.8 us/s 0.10 Process /usr/bin/kglobalaccel
0 mW 10.8 us/s kWork vmstat_update
0 mW 10.2 us/s Process /usr/bin/kuiserver
0 mW 9.9 us/s 3.1 Interrupt [47] snd_hda_intel
0 mW 9.7 us/s 0.10 Process /usr/bin/nepomukfileindexer
0 mW 9.4 us/s 0.10 Process /usr/bin/nepomukstorage
0 mW 8.6 us/s 0.15 Process /usr/bin/gpg-agent -s --daemon --write-env-file /run/user/1000/.gpg-agent-info
0 mW 8.3 us/s Process [migration/1]
0 mW 7.7 us/s Process /usr/libexec/kde4/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1
0 mW 7.6 us/s 0.10 Process /usr/bin/kwalletd
0 mW 7.1 us/s Process /usr/bin/klipper
0 mW 7.0 us/s 0.10 Process /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomuktelepathyservice
0 mW 6.7 us/s 0.6 kWork intel_unpin_work_fn
0 mW 6.0 us/s 0.10 Process [ksoftirqd/2]
0 mW 5.9 us/s Process [ksoftirqd/0]
0 mW 5.9 us/s 0.05 Process [ksoftirqd/1]
0 mW 5.8 us/s Timer clocksource_watchdog
0 mW 5.3 us/s 0.4 kWork pci_pme_list_scan
0 mW 5.1 us/s 0.10 Process /usr/libexec/accounts-daemon
0 mW 4.2 us/s 0.05 Process klauncher --fd=9
0 mW 3.8 us/s Interrupt [4] block(softirq)
0 mW 3.7 us/s 0.25 Interrupt [43] SATA controller
0 mW 3.4 us/s 0.15 Process /usr/libexec/rtkit-daemon
0 mW 3.3 us/s Process [kworker/3:2]
0 mW 3.2 us/s Process [kworker/1:2]
0 mW 3.0 us/s 0.3 kWork i915_gem_retire_work_handler
0 mW 3.0 us/s Process [migration/3]
0 mW 2.3 us/s Process [kworker/2:2]
0 mW 2.2 us/s 0.05 Process [ksoftirqd/3]
0 mW 1.9 us/s 0.05 Process /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -u -f /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -u -f /var/log/wpa_suppli
0 mW 1.7 us/s Process [migration/0]
0 mW 1.7 us/s Interrupt [1] i8042
0 mW 1.5 us/s 0.4 Timer sched_rt_period_timer
0 mW 1.2 us/s kWork __cfg80211_scan_done
0 mW 0.8 us/s 0.20 kWork mei_timer
0 mW 0.7 us/s Interrupt [3] net_rx(softirq)
0 mW 0.7 us/s 0.05 Process /usr/bin/ssh-agent /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
0 mW 0.7 us/s Timer br_hello_timer_expired
0 mW 0.6 us/s kWork wireless_nlevent_process
0 mW 0.5 us/s Timer inet_frag_secret_rebuild
0 mW 0.5 us/s Process [migration/2]
0 mW 0.4 us/s 0.05 kWork bdi_writeback_workfn
0 mW 0.4 us/s Timer writeout_period
0 mW 0.4 us/s kWork iwl_bg_scan_completed
0 mW 0.4 us/s Process [khugepaged]
0 mW 0.3 us/s 0.05 kWork neigh_periodic_work
0 mW 0.2 us/s Timer fib6_gc_timer_cb
0 mW 0.2 us/s kWork ieee80211_scan_work
0 mW 0.2 us/s Timer ieee80211_sta_timer
0 mW 0.2 us/s kWork console_callback

Device Power Report

The battery reports a discharge rate of 31.1 W

System baseline power is estimated at 15.1 W

Power est. Usage Device name
6.97 W 85.0 ops/s GPU core
6.68 W 6.8% CPU core
1.16 W 85.0 ops/s GPU misc
273 mW 6.8% CPU misc
0 mW 4464 rpm Laptop fan
0 mW 100.0% Display backlight
0 mW 100.0% Display backlight
0 mW 100.0% USB device: usb-device-8087-0024
0 mW 100.0% USB device: EHCI Host Controller
0 mW 100.0% USB device: USB Receiver (Logitech)
0 mW 100.0% Radio device: iwlwifi
0 mW 97.7% Display backlight
0 mW 59.2% Audio codec hwC0D0: Conexant (pulseaudio )
0 mW 0.2 pkts/s Network interface: wlp3s0 (iwlwifi)
0 mW 0.0% USB device: Integrated Camera (Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd.)
0 mW 0.0% USB device: Biometric Coprocessor (UPEK)
0 mW 0.0% USB device: EHCI Host Controller
0 mW 0.0% Radio device: thinkpad_acpi
0 mW 0.0% USB device: usb-device-8087-0024
100.0% PCI Device: Ricoh Co Ltd MMC/SD Host Controller
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Core Processor Family PCI Express Root Port
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation QM67 Express Chipset Family LPC Controller
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI Controller
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller
100.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak]
0.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2
0.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection
0.0% PCI Device: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller
0.0 pkts/s Network interface: em1 (e1000e)
0.0 pkts/s nic:virbr0-nic
0.0% PCI Device: NVIDIA Corporation GF119M [Quadro NVS 4200M]
0.0 pkts/s nic:virbr0
0.0% Thinkpad light

Process device activity

Process Device
systemd /dev/autofs
systemd-journal /dev/kmsg
/dev/kmsg
alsactl /dev/snd/controlC0
/dev/snd/controlC4
bluetoothd /dev/rfkill
rngd /dev/random
systemd-logind /dev/input/event0
/dev/input/event1
/dev/input/event14
/dev/input/event2
/dev/input/event7
/dev/input/event8
mcelog /dev/mcelog
wpa_supplicant /dev/rfkill
X /dev/dri/card0
/dev/input/event1
/dev/input/event14
/dev/input/event15
/dev/input/event2
/dev/input/event3
/dev/input/event4
/dev/input/event5
/dev/input/event6
/dev/input/event7
/dev/input/event8
/dev/input/event9
/dev/vga_arbiter
upowerd /dev/cpu_dma_latency
/dev/hidraw1
/dev/input/event0
/dev/network_latency
kwin /dev/dri/card0
pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC0
/dev/snd/controlC0
/dev/snd/controlC0

Software Settings in need of Tuning

Description Script
VM writeback timeout echo '1500' > '/proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs';
Autosuspend for USB device USB Receiver [Logitech] echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/usb/devices/2-1.1/power/control';

Optimal Tuned Software Settings

Description
NMI watchdog should be turned off
Enable SATA link power Managmenet for host0
Enable SATA link power Managmenet for host1
Enable SATA link power Managmenet for host2
Enable SATA link power Managmenet for host3
Enable SATA link power Managmenet for host4
Enable SATA link power Managmenet for host5
Enable Audio codec power management
Autosuspend for USB device Integrated Camera [Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd.]
Autosuspend for unknown USB device 1-1 (8087:0024)
Autosuspend for unknown USB device 2-1 (8087:0024)
Autosuspend for USB device Biometric Coprocessor [UPEK]
Autosuspend for USB device EHCI Host Controller [usb1]
Autosuspend for USB device EHCI Host Controller [usb2]
Runtime PM for PCI Device NVIDIA Corporation GF119M [Quadro NVS 4200M]
Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller
Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Core Processor Family PCI Express Root Port
Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection
Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2
Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller
Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1
Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2
Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5
Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1
Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation QM67 Express Chipset Family LPC Controller
Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI Controller
Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller
Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak]
Runtime PM for PCI Device Ricoh Co Ltd MMC/SD Host Controller
Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1
Wake-on-lan status for device virbr0
Wake-on-lan status for device virbr0-nic
Wake-on-lan status for device wlp3s0
Wake-on-lan status for device em1
Using 'ondemand' cpufreq governor