How to Save Battery & Prevent Overheating on Red-Hat Linux Based OSes

Linux Advanced Power Management for Enterprise Linux

Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install a little Daemon which serves as Battery Power/Life Saver and to Prevent CPU Excessive Heating on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 6.x/7.x/8.x/8-Stream/9-Stream GNU/Linux Desktop.

TLP brings you the benefits of advanced power management for 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.

1. Open a Shell Terminal emulator window
   (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

   

   In case first see: Terminal QuickStart Guide.
   Or Login into the Server Shell.

2. How to Enable EPEL Release for Enterprise Linux

   Enabling epel-release EL 6/7

   Setup Epel Release

3. Installing TPL on EL.

   sudo yum install tlp tlp-rdw

   This little daemon after works on background managing the power…

4. Starting the TLP daemon without ReBoot.

   sudo tlp start

5. Check if TLP is Working.

   tlp-stat -s