From: "Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mysterious high wakeups-from-idle per second
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:56:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19f34abd0807100056j5a481c81k1ec9d5c398e5924c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1KGmcV-0003Z0-4z@closure.thunk.org>
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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