The Linux Kernel Power Problems On Older Desktop Hardware

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 22 June 2011 at 11:09 AM EDT. Page 4 of 7. 53 Comments.

Like the 7-Zip results, when the CPU is under full load there is not much to look at for this hardware in terms of its average power consumption.

Also like the 7-Zip results, the compute performance in the 2.6.34 kernels and newer is much improved when using the "vanilla" kernel builds.


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