Re: 2.6.21-rc4: extremely high power consumption

From: J.A. MagallÃn
Date: Wed Mar 21 2007 - 18:51:35 EST


On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:29:38 +0100, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> 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...

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