From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753022AbXCUWvH (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:51:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753029AbXCUWvH (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:51:07 -0400 Received: from smtp.ono.com ([62.42.230.12]:11817 "EHLO resmaa01.ono.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753022AbXCUWvG (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:51:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:50:52 +0100 From: "J.A. =?UTF-8?B?TWFnYWxsw7Nu?=" To: Pavel Machek Cc: kernel list Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc4: extremely high power consumption Message-ID: <20070321235052.6b00cfac@werewolf-wl> In-Reply-To: <20070321222938.GB6060@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20070321222938.GB6060@elf.ucw.cz> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.8.1cvs32 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:29:38 +0100, Pavel Machek 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 \ 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