> > I am sorry, are you trying to convince me that my problem is not real? > You can compare to my completely idle system (I even closed the > browser but with these residency values it doesn't really matter > anymore in terms of power saving): > > Cn Avg residency > C0 (cpu running) ( 4.7%) > C0 0.1ms ( 0.0%) > C1 mwait 0.0ms ( 0.0%) > C2 mwait 0.1ms ( 0.5%) > C6 mwait 2.9ms (94.8%) > P-states (frequencies) > 2.41 Ghz 2.3% > 2.40 Ghz 0.4% > 1.60 Ghz 0.9% > 800 Mhz 96.5% > Wakeups-from-idle per second : 369.8 interval: 15.0s > Power usage (ACPI estimate): 12.2W (3.0 hours) > Top causes for wakeups: > 73.0% (363.4)<kernel IPI> : Rescheduling interrupts > 9.2% ( 45.7)<interrupt> : extra timer interrupt > 6.1% ( 30.3)<interrupt> : iwlagn > 4.0% ( 19.8)<interrupt> : acpi > 2.1% ( 10.5) gkrellm : schedule_hrtimeout_range (hrtimer_wakeup) > 2.0% ( 10.1) xfwm4 : schedule_hrtimeout_range (hrtimer_wakeup) >
so one of the things of this rescheduling interrupt is that it is sort of a side effect of other wakeups/code running. I bet that if you, say, stop gkrellm, you'll see it go down proportionally .... _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
