TLP saves laptop battery power on Linux without the need to understand every technical detail.
TLP comes with a default configuration already optimized for battery life, so you may just install and forget it. Nevertheless TLP is highly customizable to fulfil your specific requirements.
TLP is a pure command line tool with automated background tasks. It does not contain a GUI.
Depending on the power source (AC or battery) the following settings are applied:
- Kernel laptop mode and dirty buffer params
- Processor frequency scaling including "turbo boost" / "turbo core"
- Limit Intel CPU max/min P-state to control power dissipation (Intel P-state only)
- Intel CPU energy/performance policies HWP.EPP (Intel P-state only) and EPB
- Disk drive advanced power management level (APM) and spin down timeout
- AHCI link power management (ALPM) with device blacklist
- AHCI runtime power management for host controllers and disks (EXPERIMENTAL)
- PCIe active state power management (PCIe ASPM)
- Runtime power management for PCIe bus devices
- Intel GPU frequency limits
- Radeon graphics power management (KMS and DPM)
- Wifi power saving mode
- Enable/disable integrated radio devices (excluding connected devices)
- Power off optical drive in UltraBay/MediaBay
- Audio power saving mode
- I/O scheduler (per disk)
- USB autosuspend with device blacklist/whitelist (input devices excluded automatically)
- Enable or disable integrated radio devices upon system startup and shutdown
- Restore radio device state on system startup (from previous shutdown)
- Radio device wizard: switch radios upon network connect/disconnect and dock/undock
- Disable Wake On LAN
- Integrated WWAN and bluetooth state is restored after suspend/hibernate
- Battery charge thresholds and recalibration - ThinkPads only
TLP packages are available for all major Linux distributions; see Installation.
The default configuration provides optimized power saving out of the box.
Settings are stored in /etc/default/tlp;
see Configuration for
details.
Read the the full documentation at the website:
Or take a look at the manpages:
- tlp (apply settings)
- tlp-rdw (control the radio device wizard)
- tlp-stat (display tlp status and active settings)
- wifi, bluetooth, wwan (switch wireless devices on/off)
- run-on-ac, run-on-bat
Please use adequate Linux forums for help and support questions.
Refer to the Bug Reporting Howto.
Contributing is not only about coding and pull requests. Volunteers helping with testing and support are always welcome!
See Contributing.