Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:56:16 +0200 | From | "Vegard Nossum" <> | Subject | Re: Mysterious high wakeups-from-idle per second |
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On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:14 AM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote: > > I'm not sure when this started happening, as I haven't needed to run on > battery a lot, but I recently noticed (using a 2.6.26-rc9 kernel) that my > power utilization is 2-3 watts on my laptop higher than normal. Running > powertop I see:
Hi,
I reported a similar (but not the same) problem earlier and one of the suggestions was to boot with idle=mwait. (And that fixed it for me, though the problem was fixed in code later.)
I'm not sure it's related to your problem, but I guess it's worth a try?
Vegard
-- "The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation." -- E. W. Dijkstra, EWD1036
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