Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 2 Dec 2007 15:41:13 +0100 | | From | Adrian Bunk <> | | Subject | Re: 20000+ wake-ups/second in 2.6.24. Bug? | |
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 06:43:39PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> Mark Lord wrote:>> Arjan van de Ven wrote:>>> On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:31:17 -0500>>> Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:> ...>>>> Speaking of which.. what's with powertop on 2.6.24 ???
>>>> It's gone from 100-200 wakeups/sec to 20000 wakeups/sec !!!!!!!>>>>>> ho hum.. Lenovo T61?>>> I have some reports that that happens once in a while (but it's not
>>> limited to .24 and it's also real, it's not a powertop bug but it
>>> actually is waking up that much)..>> ..>>>> No, it's my hefty Dell Inspiron 9400.>>>> And I just figured out the powertop: it needed the kernel timers
>> patch from the powertop site that was originally for 2.6.21..> ...>> Dagnabbit.. it's done it again.. went from 100-200 wakeups/sec
> back up to 20000+ wakeups/sec. This time *with* the powertop patches in place.
What is the status with an unpatched 2.6.23?
> Somethings broken in there, but I don't know what.> Or how to make it happen on demand.. it's fine after rebooting again.
>> ???>> At least now I know to look when I hear the fan turning on
> when the system is otherwise supposed to be idle..>> 2.6.23 did not have this problem.
Please send the output of "dmesg -s 1000000" for both 2.6.23 and 2.6.24.
cu
Adrian
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