From: kolargol <kolargol@protonmail.com>
To: "wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com" <wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re: iOS WG Battery Life
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2019 07:29:04 +0000 [thread overview]
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I am comparing battery to OpenVPN (typical drop do not pass 10% in same conditions), or without VPN at all - max 7%
During nighttime there is no activity, also i have disabled keep-alives (PersistentKeepalive) - tried with and without - no big difference.
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On Friday, March 1, 2019 11:08 AM, Kalin KOZHUHAROV <me.kalin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 11:03 AM kolargol kolargol@protonmail.com wrote:
>
> > I am testing WG on varius OSes and devices and I have noted severe battery drain on iOS (12.2, iPhone 8). Typically battery drops 40% during night-time (that is 7 hours of inactivity on the phone) when WireGuard is engaged.
>
> Compared to how much during night without activated WireGuard?
>
> > Is this some kind of known issue? I did not had chance to test previous iOS version without SIMD ChaCha20 support so i cannot tell if it is becouse of the last update.
> > Anything i can do to track issue here?
>
> Is there anything using the interface, or just wg keep-alive?
> May be try to change the keep-alive to a longer period.
> Also (and I have 0 experience with iOS), a keep-alive packet my wake
> up the phone, and let it stay awake for some longer-than-needed
> interval (e.g. 5 minutes).
> Try to have a look at what actually eats the battery: CPU, radio, screen?
>
> Cheers,
> Kalin.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-02 7:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-28 12:07 kolargol
2019-03-01 10:08 ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2019-03-02 0:30 ` Mark Finzel
2019-03-02 7:29 ` kolargol [this message]
[not found] ` <EA2CDA40-8988-4C4F-B848-B2F7C6D8716C@lonnie.abelbeck.com>
2019-03-02 19:54 ` kolargol
2019-03-02 20:09 ` John
2019-03-02 20:50 ` Mailing Lists
2019-03-03 15:30 ` kolargol
2019-03-02 21:22 ` Lonnie Abelbeck
2019-03-06 10:32 ` kolargol
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