Rocko, Tried it and there wasn't a great deal of difference overall on my Thinkpad X300
The Load balancing ticks dropped some but were replaced by a new item called kworker/0:0 Here is the result from powertop -d Wakeups-from-idle per second : 226.3 interval: 15.0s no ACPI power usage estimate available Top causes for wakeups: 20.0% ( 28.1) kworker/0:0 13.5% ( 19.0) [kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick 13.0% ( 18.3) firefox-bin 12.4% ( 17.4) [extra timer interrupt] 7.1% ( 10.0) nautilus 5.4% ( 7.6) [iwlagn] <interrupt> 3.5% ( 4.9) syndaemon 3.2% ( 4.5) [TLB shootdowns] <kernel IPI> 3.2% ( 4.5) [kernel core] hrtimer_start (tick_sched_timer) 2.9% ( 4.1) apt-check 2.5% ( 3.5) [acpi] <interrupt> 2.1% ( 3.0) Xorg -- Tens of wakes per second in "[kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick" on Core 2 Duo even with only 1 core enabled https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/524281 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
