On 03/19/10 08:10, Andrew Henry wrote:
> Before I got my UPS Powertop was always in the green, but now I just
> cannot get there because the UPS is causing the USB to be polled
> quite often:
>
> A USB device is active  4.5% of the time: USB device  7-1 : Back-UPS
> ES 550 FW:828.D2.I USB FW:D2 (APC)
>
> I can enable usb power mgmt by pressing U but it does not have any
> effect, because the UPS keeps polling so often.  I understand that
> this is a pure UPS issue, but does it really need to poll so often?
> Anyone know of a way to stop it polling so often or would this break
> the UPS's function?

this depends on the driver, is this an open source kernel or user space 
driver? if so, perhaps the polling frequency can be lowered.

Auke

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