On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 12:36 -0700, J?rgen Keil wrote: > > > > 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.
Possibly, yes. > 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? Negative, the screen is as still as a serene lake. > 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 Possibly related, but prstat doesn't show anything interesting. There's nothing actively using very much CPU at all. -Seb
