This is powertop. Power est. Usage Events/s Category Description 8.11 W 100.0% Device Radio device: thinkpad_acpi 382 mW 2.6 ms/s 55.3 Process xfwm4 --replace --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 2fcff95f2-164a-40f4-87bf-49f188175134 207 mW 100.0% Device USB device: usb-device-138a-0017 194 mW 17.1 ms/s 78.0 Process /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/pa 177 mW 15.6 ms/s 57.0 Process python3 /opt/scudcloud/scudcloud 167 mW 100.0% Device USB device: MultiTouch Sensor (Wacom Co.,Ltd. ) 165 mW 11.4 ms/s 60.2 Process /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-application/indicator-application-service 159 mW 13.6 ms/s 33.7 Process /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
The unnamed usb device is the fingerprint reader, which I am not using and do not have a driver for. Soft-blocking wifi and/or bluetooth does not reduce the 8.11W used by thinkpad_acpi, and anyway, i'm somewhat suspicious of that assignment of power consumption. This is cpupower monitor: |Nehalem || Mperf || Idle_Stats CPU | C3 | C6 | PC3 | PC6 || C0 | Cx | Freq || POLL | C1-B | C1E- | C3-B | C6-B | C7s- | C8-B | C9-B | C10- 0| 1.13| 1.22| 0.00| 0.00|| 8.71| 91.29| 884|| 0.00| 0.60| 0.52| 1.03| 0.79| 4.49| 12.19| 55.25| 16.50 1| 1.13| 1.22| 0.00| 0.00|| 7.36| 92.64| 864|| 0.00| 0.13| 3.04| 0.51| 0.65| 1.91| 17.36| 43.86| 25.20 2| 0.34| 1.07| 0.00| 0.00|| 6.53| 93.47| 885|| 0.00| 0.04| 0.54| 0.58| 1.18| 1.85| 6.01| 59.26| 24.08 3| 0.34| 1.07| 0.00| 0.00|| 4.92| 95.08| 871|| 0.00| 0.06| 1.93| 0.08| 0.05| 0.99| 6.44| 69.57| 16.00 I don't know how to parse this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1535426 Title: CPU runs at high speed after upgrade Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: After a dist-upgrade from 15.04 to 15.10, moving from kernel 3.19.0-43 to 4.2.0-23, my laptop CPU runs continuously at 3GHz, and never slows down to 800MHz, as it used to. This has reduced my battery life from 24 hours to 8 hours. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10 Package: linux-image-4.2.0-23-generic 4.2.0-23.28 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-23.28-generic 4.2.6 Uname: Linux 4.2.0-23-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC1: shevek 2664 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC0: shevek 2664 F.... pulseaudio CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Mon Jan 18 11:38:29 2016 HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=22fd2208-7557-432d-bbff-95dd97905323 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-05-18 (244 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422.1) MachineType: LENOVO 20CKCT01WW ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.2.0-23-generic.efi.signed root=/dev/mapper/xubuntu--vg-root ro noprompt persistent quiet splash vt.handoff=7 RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-4.2.0-23-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-4.2.0-23-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.149.3 SourcePackage: linux UdevLog: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/log/udev' UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2016-01-17 (1 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 08/20/2015 dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO dmi.bios.version: N11ET34W (1.10 ) dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available dmi.board.name: 20CKCT01WW dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO dmi.board.version: 0B98417 WIN dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO dmi.chassis.version: None dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrN11ET34W(1.10):bd08/20/2015:svnLENOVO:pn20CKCT01WW:pvrThinkPadT550:rvnLENOVO:rn20CKCT01WW:rvr0B98417WIN:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNone: dmi.product.name: 20CKCT01WW dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T550 dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1535426/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp