Benchmarks for Battery Life

[undoIT]

Hi all. I have access to many laptops and may start using the Phoronix Test Suite to benchmark distros in the near future. I'm looking for a good test for benchmarking battery life. Is there such a tool in the Test Suite? If not, are there any plans to develop battery benchmarks?

[Michael]

At this point you can already apply battery monitoring to any test by running, for example:

MONITOR=battery.power phoronix-test-suite benchmark x264

[undoIT]

I'm thinking that running a system idle test would be the most accurate for comparing across operating systems (i.e. comparing Windows / OS X / Linux). Is there a way to run battery monitoring while the laptop just idles? Will the runtime be recorded in the log file?

[Michael]

MONITOR=battery.power phoronix-test-suite benchmark idle

[undoIT]

Thanks Michael. One more question, is there a benchmark you would recommend that can be duplicated on different operating systems for a more accurate estimate of real-world usage?

[Michael]

Maybe "warsow compress-7zip ffmpeg openssl" for load on the multiple platforms -- at least for Linux / BSD / OS X. Still bringing up the Windows profiles.