-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Some remarks on the current, very nice improvements :-)
Since -rc3, suspend-to-ram works reliably, the - -hrt patchset still broke it, but now also works flawlessly, AFAIKT. On my 82852/82855 GM (Thinkpad R50e, 18348RG) the number of wakeups caused by 3d-accelerated graphics, usb and net (all on one interrupt) has fallen dramatically. It used to "echo" the wakeups of the disk and about everything. Idling, it did some 5-6 wakeups in X, 1.4 without. Now it is idling at .5 in X, and it does no more scale with next to all activities, but only kicks in on its very own businesses... Quite a bit better than I thought was possible. Now, a none too idle X setup (adsl active, couple shells, usb driver loaded...) idles at 5-6 wakeups altogether. Rejoice! The wakeups of the mouse driver seem more moderate while in use as well. In the "strange noteworthy" section, we have firefox after a suspend (both to ram and disk). While causing a varying, rather high number of wakeups with a couple tabs open, typically some 40, it used to remain that way until closed. Now, after a suspend, it seems not to cause any wakeups at all, even if viewed, until actually doing something in it. In total wakeups, it gives me an idling desktop below 10 wakeups even while i have thunderbird open to write this mail :-) Streaming raw audio to disk from the soundcard used to be rather fragile, other disk I/O used to cause overruns, now, it streams very nicely and robustly. Plus, the screensaver kills the backlights as well when blanking out since a while now, dramatically reducing power consumption from 10.5 to 7.2 W. This breaks after playing a video with mplayer, and comes back after suspending. The screensaver kicks in all by itself. (Meaning I never configured it to. Meaning I don't know the handle for userspace control. Can someone tell?) Awesome improvements in many a corner. Thanks to the intel devs, kernel devs, tglx devs, Andre -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG8YOUhYOgL/M0VS0RCuBNAJ9XBgp8WRujB0pcJiZ82I/ZQVk7HgCdFMJv yrmkw71kB7aMswT6mXgItgM= =pWmf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
