What is your kernel version and hardware? I had a similar problem with Intel laptops.
Best regards, Tiago Marques On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Debayan Banerjee <debaya...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 9 February 2011 21:05, Arjan van de Ven <ar...@linux.intel.com> wrote: > > 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 ran vmstat, top, sar and took a dump of /proc/stat. None of them > show high percentages in iowait state. All of them show around 97% cpu > idle time. Is powertop erroneously showing high polling then? > Also, my disk light stays off so I dont think high IO is taking place > on the disk atleast. It might be some other device? > Find the logs attached. > > > > > > > > > > -- > Peace, Love, Linux > Debayan Banerjee > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lesswatts.org > http://lists.lesswatts.org/listinfo/discuss > >
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