It looks like EIST(speedstep) is not enabled, or it's not supported. Please check BIOS and give us "psrinfo -vp" report.
-Aubrey ________________________________ From: Douglas Atique [mailto:d3a...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 1:02 AM To: Mark Haywood Cc: Li, Aubrey; pm-discuss at opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [pm-discuss] Help with battery consumption Looks like it was already enabled... -- Douglas # # Copyright 1996-2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. # Use is subject to license terms. # #pragma ident "@(#)power.conf 2.1 02/03/04 SMI" # # Power Management Configuration File # device-dependency-property removable-media /dev/fb autopm default autoS3 default cpu-threshold 1s cpupm enable # Auto-Shutdown Idle(min) Start/Finish(hh:mm) Behavior autoshutdown 30 9:00 9:00 noshutdown ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "power.conf" 16 lines, 411 characters On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Mark Haywood <Mark.Haywood at sun.com<mailto:Mark.Haywood at sun.com>> wrote: Douglas Atique wrote: I have used this laptop with SXCE since snv_69. I have noticed this high battery consumption with more recent builds (say snv_100), but I am not exactly sure which one. I am not sure if cpupm is enabled. I didn't do anything to enable it. Here is an output of powertop running on my machine. Look at your /etc/power.conf file and see if you see a line like: cpupm enable Also, a line like: cpu-threshold 1s would be good. And make sure SpeedStep is enable in your BIOS setup. I assume that it is. Mark -- Douglas OpenSolaris PowerTOP version 1.1 Cn Avg residency P-states (frequencies) C0 (cpu running) (15.8%) 1662 Mhz 100.0% C1 1.3ms (84.2%) Wakeups-from-idle per second: 660.8 interval: 5.1s no ACPI power usage estimate available Top causes for wakeups: 40.0% (264.3) <kernel> : genunix`cv_wakeup 15.1% (100.0) <kernel> : genunix`clock 13.4% ( 88.4) <interrupt> : ath#0 7.1% ( 47.2) <interrupt> : i8042#0 5.7% ( 37.5) sched : <cross calls> 3.9% ( 26.0) <kernel> : genunix`realitexpire 1.8% ( 11.7) <kernel> : uhci`uhci_handle_root_hub_status_change 1.5% ( 10.1) <kernel> : ata`ghd_timeout 0.7% ( 4.9) <kernel> : myk`gem_mii_link_watcher 0.7% ( 4.7) <kernel> : genunix`lwp_timer_timeout On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Li, Aubrey <aubrey.li<http://aubrey.li> <http://aubrey.li>@intel.com<http://intel.com> <http://intel.com>> wrote: Douglas Atique wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Sony Vaio VGN-N38Z laptop which used to work well for > about 2 hours. Which build did you use to make your laptop working well for about 2 hours? >However, in the latest SXCE builds (I use > snv_105 now) I have noticed that once disconnected from AC > power, the battery indicator in the Gnome bar starts to > decrease almost like a clock and in about 20 minutes it is > already asking me to recharge. I started suspecting that some > power management-related change is the cause of this behavior > because the laptop has been working warm all the time. > > Can I do something to diagnose a possible problem? If anyone > wants to take a look, I offer my time for testing. Just let me know > what I have to do. > > Cheers, > Douglas Did you enable cpupm(speedstep)? What does powertop say? Thanks, -Aubrey ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ pm-discuss mailing list pm-discuss at opensolaris.org<mailto:pm-discuss at opensolaris.org> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pm-discuss/attachments/20090204/7d6b761c/attachment.html>
