Laptop Asus VivoBook X421JAY_K413JA / intel core i3 1005G1 / 8 Gb, from the changes I added another M.2 SSD for 256 Gb working in SATA mode and made a clean installation on SSD NvME - Zorin OS, on SSD M2 SATA - Win 11
The problem is in Zorin OS the laptop discharges very quickly in standby mode (when I close the lid) literally 20% in 1 hour, overnight completely also easily,
From additional software after installing Zorin OS I installed several browsers EDGE, Chrome and mail Thunderbird
I installed powertop and tried to calibrate, as a result, everything began to slow down and even the mouse cursor began to hang, I deleted it), but I do not understand how to solve the problem...
I've paste this link elsewhere on here before:
this is not exactly what I wanted, and what I wanted to do is intended for the average user who has changed Mac OS or Windows many times.
It is also indicated on the " When installing auto-cpufreq via auto-cpufreq-installer, if it detects the GNOME Power Profiles service is running, it will automatically disable it. Otherwise, that daemon will cause conflicts and various other performance issues."
To be honest, this is not what I want, but a slightly more friendly user interface and even more so installation. The reasons for choosing Zorin are the desire to have everything stable right out of the box.
Anyway, thanks for the advice.
Testing showed that it doesn't really help((( I'm talking about auto-cpufreq
For 2 hours in standby mode (laptop lid is closed), the laptop ran out of battery from 93% to 69%, this is not normal in general
Do you have non-essential processes turned off when not in use, such as Bluetooth (and WiFi) while working on Documents for example? Have you checked what system processes are running in the background? I have noticed that OS's that don't have systemd are lighter in resource use.
I'm just trying to figure it out, but I don't really understand how
Just out of curiosity, if you go to the power settings in Zorin, when you shut the lid, is it set to Sleep? Or something else? I'm wondering if it's not actually sleeping at all when you close the lid. This can be a setting to change, or it can also be an issue that needs to be looked into further.
If it is set to sleep, then if you shut the lid and listen for the fans of the laptop, if they're running then something else is going on.
I understand what you're talking about, yes, my laptop goes into standby mode, it stands completely silent all the time, plus I have a power button set to switch to standby mode, it goes into it too if you do that
The only thing I don't understand is how to see what consumes energy when the laptop is in standby mode, it seems to me when it is running, the discharge is slower)))
If you let your computer go to sleep for a bit then wake it, then run:
sudo journalctl -xe
I wonder if that might bring up some logs that could help track down what's going on here a little bit better.
below is the result of this command, I don't really understand something. I noticed today that the laptop is in standby mode, the indicator flashes showing that the laptop is in standby mode, the fans are not working, but where the processor is located it is warm, even after an hour or two
sudo journalctl -xe
░░ Юнит UNIT завершен. Приводится статистика по потребленным им ресурсам.
дек 10 17:11:49 ASUSLaptop systemd[1]: fprintd.service: Deactivated successfully.
░░ Subject: Unit succeeded
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: Enterprise open source support | Ubuntu
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░░ The unit fprintd.service has successfully entered the 'dead' state.
дек 10 17:12:03 ASUSLaptop wpa_supplicant[591]: wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-60 noise=9999 txrate=292600
дек 10 17:12:08 ASUSLaptop rtkit-daemon[835]: Successfully made thread 15634 of process 1439 owned by '1000' RT at priority 20.
дек 10 17:12:08 ASUSLaptop rtkit-daemon[835]: Supervising 8 threads of 5 processes of 1 users.
дек 10 17:12:18 ASUSLaptop rtkit-daemon[835]: Successfully made thread 15741 of process 1439 owned by '1000' RT at priority 20.
дек 10 17:12:18 ASUSLaptop rtkit-daemon[835]: Supervising 8 threads of 5 processes of 1 users.
дек 10 17:12:20 ASUSLaptop sudo[15757]: konstantin : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/konstantin ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/journalctl -xe
дек 10 17:12:20 ASUSLaptop sudo[15757]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=1000)
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Ok, and I see you have installed chrome and edge. Do you use either of these as your daily browser? Both? Or firefox?
Also, are you using the stock kernel in Zorin (6.8) or are you using a custom kernel? Sometimes errors like this / interactions can be a result of a different kernel causing a unique interaction with the system that's not intended.
It may be worth attempting to look through your browsers (presuming you sleep the system with everything open, as one would do) and seeing if you can disable hardware acceleration and try again. I know sometimes in Firefox this can cause issues such as this.
I use Google and Edge every day, using different accounts for the same services. I don't even open Firefox, I'm thinking of deleting it. I didn't even touch the cores, as it turned out, it is. According to browsers, I usually don't close them when I put my laptop to sleep
Then my first thing I would try is check the browsers that you use and see if Hardware Acceleration is enabled. If it is, disabled them and relaunch / sometimes a reboot / relogin is needed to make the change, then do another sleep with the hardware acceleration off (if it's on) and see if that makes a difference.
I'll try to figure it out.
I also noticed why it does not discharge longer in Windows, because after a while the laptop goes into hibernation mode from standby mode, apparently there is no such thing in Zorin Os.
I figured it out, turned off all the accelerations, but there was no result, in 25 minutes the laptop was discharged by 9% in standby mode
maybe it makes sense to switch to another distribution Manjaro Gnome or Garuda
It wouldn't hurt to give another a try if you have the spare time, and just see if the same behaviour persists. Could try either distro, really. Unless someone else has some other ideas for you, this is a weird issue that I've only run into maybe once in the past.
Just tested it for a little more than 10 minutes, the laptop is still warming up, while it is in standby mode. To see which processes are running in standby mode, I still did not understand how ((
As a result, I installed Manjaro (Gnome version), when installing I immediately chose to have Hibernation mode available, I think that's what Zorin OS lacks out of the box, because Zorin is more stable than Manjaro, I've already noticed this from glitches
P.S more than a day of the Manjaro test, discharge in standby mode (without hibernation) per night is only 2-3%, as I missed it on Zorin.
In general, I stay on the Monjaro, the stability of power consumption in standby mode is more important to me than the simplicity of Zorin.
I really hope that this flaw will be fixed and my laptop will have Zorin OS again
Dang! I'm not Linux-savvy enough to help you figure this out. But I do hope it gets fixed. I'm running Zorin on an Asus ROG Zephyrus with Ryzen 9, Nvidia RTX 3070. I've noticed the laptop's battery lasts quite a bit longer on Zorin compared to Windows 11. Perhaps it's a specific hardware that's causing the battery draining issue on your laptop. I'm assuming you haven't had the chance to reinstall Zorin to see if the results are any better?