On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 03:10:38PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Tue 2010-01-26 02:47:40, Jeff Garrett wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I was trying to chase down a theory that my desktop machine (a core i7)
> > is running warm (the fan sounds like it's at full speed all the time,
> > and I think it's not always acted this way -- hence the theory).
> > 
> > powertop is never showing it spending any time in C3...
> > 
> > I compiled a kernel without USB/sound/radeon, and ran without X.  I was
> > able to get the wakeups/sec down below 20, but no time is spent in C3.
> 
> > This may be a complete red herring, but I added some printk logic to
> > acpi_idle_bm_check(), and it is getting called often, but bm_status is
> > always 1.  [I infer from this that the idle logic is trying to go into
> > C3, but this check is stopping it...  Unless I misread something.]
> > 
> > Is this expected behavior or is this a legitimate problem?
> > 
> > How might I investigate this further?
> 
> DMA keeps system awake? Possibly USB?

X is not running.  USB is not enabled at all (CONFIG_USB_SUPPORT is not
set), and likewise for sound & drm.  What could be doing the DMA?  :)

If there is DMA, it could be disk or network related.  However, I
find it hard to believe that this activity is so constant on a nearly
idle system...  Of course, I haven't thought of a way to test this yet.

Attaching my config & dmesg of my latest try.

Thanks,
-Jeff