X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/58e496cad186593c9543ea474af4d38e383a5784..c6996136567a133cc3742f9846fed4e7d9cadc74:/blog/index.rss diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index e9e3a29be8..ccbf39e425 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ available in Debian.</p> battery stats ever since. Now my /var/log/hjemmenett-battery-status.log file contain around 115,000 measurements, from the time the battery was working great until now, -when it is unable to charge above 7% of original capasity. My -colletor shell script is quite simple and look like this:</p> +when it is unable to charge above 7% of original capacity. My +collector shell script is quite simple and look like this:</p> <pre> #!/bin/sh @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ fi log_battery() { # Print complete message in one echo call, to avoid race condition - # when several log processes run in parallell. + # when several log processes run in parallel. msg=$(printf "%s," $(date +%s); \ for f in $files; do \ printf "%s," $(cat $f); \ @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ timestamp,manufacturer,model_name,technology,serial_number,energy_full,energy_fu </pre> <p>I wrote a small script to create a graph of the charge development -over time. This graph depicted above show the slow death of mylaptop +over time. This graph depicted above show the slow death of my laptop battery.</p> <p>But why is this happening? Why are my laptop batteries always @@ -134,6 +134,14 @@ speed change over time, or if this stay the same. I did not yet try to write a tool to calculate the derivative values of the battery level, but suspect some interesting insights might be learned from those.</p> + +<p>Update 2015-09-24: I got a top to install the packages +acpi-call-dkms and tlp (unfortunately missing in Debian stable) +packages instead of the tp-smapi-dkms package I had tried to use +initially, and use 'tlp setcharge 40 80' to change when charging start +and stop. I've done so now, but expect my existing battery is toast +and need to be replaced. The proposal is unfortunately Thinkpad +specific.</p>