On 10 February 2011 20:10, Arjan van de Ven <ar...@linux.intel.com> wrote: > On 2/9/2011 10:37 PM, Debayan Banerjee wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On 9 February 2011 21:05, Arjan van de Ven<ar...@linux.intel.com> wrote: >>> >>> hmmm..... powertop in meego does report things.. but in your case it just >>> reports the btrfs background workers, >>> not the guys who cause those to be busy. >>> (the "D" ones in the screenshot) >>> >>> can you run "powertop -d" to see if other "D"'s show up? >> >> I have attached the output of powertop -d > > The application 'rsyslogd' is writing to file 'messages' on /dev/sda2 > The application 'anerley-account' is writing to file '.xsession-errors' on > /dev/sda2 > The application 'gconfd-2' is writing to file '%gconf.xml.new' on /dev/sda2 > > are the tree offenders... > my money is on syslog, eg something is constantly logging error messages....
Two questions: 1) So if i kill the 3 processes above the polling will stop? 2) Why aren't log files mem mapped? > > > -- Peace, Love, Linux Debayan Banerjee _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lesswatts.org http://lists.lesswatts.org/listinfo/discuss
