Re: Mysterious high wakeups-from-idle per second

[Vegard Nossum]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:14 AM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> 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

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