> > > With no Xorg, and with event mode, powertop indeed shows that the > > > system remains mostly in the lowest P-state. > > > > Sounds good, it looks like we found the cause. > Thanks for the validation! > > I don't think we've found the cause. We've only > determined that _something_ is causing Xorg to do stuff on an idle > system...
Could also be caused by some gnome desktop application. Are there any desktop applets running that update the screen frequently? E.g. a clock applet, showing seconds? Or the network monitor applet? Or maybe the blinking cursor in a gnome terminal? And it seems there are some gnome desktop bugs, that cause high cpu usage, like this one: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=10002 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
