Here is some data ..... wakeups and residency time in C4 while using Staroffice/Openoffce.
link to graph (log scale) http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~bhaskara/powertop/powertop.jpg link to spreadsheet http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~bhaskara/powertop/powerTop.ods -G Ganesha Bhaskara wrote: > hi all, > > This is kind of orthogonal, but still related. I am using powertop to > figure of ways of extending battery life on my laptop Dell 700m running > Ubuntu 7.04. > > With 2.6.22-hrt and advice in the hints section on > www.intelpowertop.org website, I have been able to bring down the number > of wakeups of the CPU to 6 to 8/second with more than 99% of time spent > in C4 with average residency of 120 - 140 ms, when nothing is running. > However, when I run staroffice/openoffice I get atleast 20-25 wake ups / > second with reduced average residency in C4. Does anyone know why this > happens or how I can find out what what in staroffice/openoffice is > causing the extra wakeups. > > Thanks > > -Ganeshaa > > _______________________________________________ > Power mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
