Eric Saxe wrote: >> See: >> >> CR 3883663 b122 does not scale cpu frequency > I upgraded my desktop to build 121, and when running X I see the same > thing. There's earlier discussion on the list about some runaway Gnome > activity which is keeping things busy...I haven't seen that isolated > yet (so I'm taking a look). > > poll-mode CPU is sampling based, adjusting frequencies based on > utilization over the sampling interval. event-mode (the default) is > more responsive...it filters out t
I killed the desktop print manager, which by itself was chewing up about 1% of CPU, and this also caused svc.configd (which was also consuming ~ 2.2%) to calm down as well. My desktop is now at the lowest P-state nearly 100% of the time when idle now... -Eric
