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by dijit 2787 days ago
> There's NO WAY battery life could be better on OpenBSD though. OpenBSD is not even tickless!!

FWIW FreeBSD idled hot on my thinkpad x201 and x201s, where openbsd did not. I got more battery from a slim Linux than openBSD, but FreeBSD was by far the worst for battery life if you're comparing them.
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floatboth 2786 days ago
Odd. Did you load the GPU driver? Start powerd?
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dijit 2786 days ago
Yes. I was looking at power optimisations at the time and those were suggestions. The issue was an idle load of 1.0 (nothing was noticably taking cpu), and when I say idle I mean there was nothing being drawn on screen and the browser was closed.
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JdeBP 2785 days ago
... but Sendmail was furiously trying to redeliver a massive mail queue of daily security run output messages? (-:

There is more than just your WWW browser and X applications running on a FreeBSD system.

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dijit 2785 days ago
Yes, of course, but maybe that's part of the problem.

FWIW, sendmail delivery to local mailboxes shouldn't need to retry, since it'll just dump in roots spool folder.

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