From: "J.A. Magallón" <jamagallon@ono.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc4: extremely high power consumption
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:50:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070321235052.6b00cfac@werewolf-wl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070321222938.GB6060@elf.ucw.cz>
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:29:38 +0100, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Today I heard fans running a bit too much. I checked with top, and got
> no obvious power hog. And now acpi battery says:
>
> root@amd:/data/l/zaurus/oz.spitz.3541# cat
> /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
> present: yes
> capacity state: ok
> charging state: discharging
> present rate: 35248 mW
> remaining capacity: 1850 mWh
> present voltage: 14259 mV
>
> ...35W! This machine normally eats 14W.
>
> Now it got better, I still see nothing at top... 22W. That's still 8W
> more than it should be. What is going on?
> Pavel
Periodical disk writes that eat your battery ?
No display dimming ?
No cpu speed reduction ?
Just ideas...
--
J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com> \ Software is like sex:
\ It's better when it's free
Mandriva Linux release 2007.1 (Cooker) for i586
Linux 2.6.20-jam05 (gcc 4.1.2 20070302 (prerelease) (4.1.2-1mdv2007.1)) #2 SMP PREEMPT
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