On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 01:38:12PM +0100, Jan Kantert wrote: > Hi, > > according to powertop Network Manager wakes up my cpu about once every > two seconds. Thats does not sound much but on an idle desktop with 10 > wake ups per seconds thats 5%. I wanted my laptop's cpu to stay longer > in sleepstates so I wrote a little patch (against trunk) to replace > g_timeout_add with g_timeout_add_seconds (where possible), which uses > more rough granularity. This helps to aggregate timeouts and will > statistically wake up the cpu less frequently.
Sounds good. Curious, if you have collected data on how much of a powersaving win this patch brings? - Alexander _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
