http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15364
--- Comment #3 from Artem S. Tashkinov <t.ar...@mailcity.com> 2010-02-25 10:51:00 --- Oops, I've forgotten about -d flag. Here's the right output: [r...@localhost ~]# powertop -d PowerTOP 1.11 (C) 2007, 2008 Intel Corporation Collecting data for 15 seconds Your CPU supports the following C-states : C1 C2 C3 Your BIOS reports the following C-states : C1 C2 C3 Cn Avg residency C0 (cpu running) ( 0.6%) polling 0.0ms ( 0.0%) C1 mwait 0.0ms ( 0.0%) C2 mwait 8.4ms (94.6%) C3 mwait 2.9ms ( 4.8%) P-states (frequencies) 3.21 Ghz 46.7% 2.81 Ghz 13.3% 2.67 Ghz 13.3% 2.54 Ghz 6.7% 1.60 Ghz 13.3% Wakeups-from-idle per second : 130.0 interval: 15.0s no ACPI power usage estimate available Top causes for wakeups: 75.2% (150.5) <kernel core> : hrtimer_start_range_ns (tick_sched_timer) 5.1% ( 10.3) knetstats : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 3.2% ( 6.5) artsd : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 2.8% ( 5.5) firefox-bin : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 2.2% ( 4.3) <kernel core> : hrtimer_start (tick_sched_timer) 1.5% ( 3.0) kicker : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 1.0% ( 2.1) gkrellm : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 1.0% ( 2.0) <kernel core> : clocksource_watchdog (clocksource_watchdog) 0.9% ( 1.8) <interrupt> : eth1 0.7% ( 1.5) <kernel IPI> : TLB shootdowns 0.6% ( 1.1) pppoe : queue_delayed_work (delayed_work_timer_fn) 0.5% ( 1.0) <interrupt> : nvidia 0.5% ( 1.0) <kernel core> : nv_kern_rc_timer (nv_kern_rc_timer) 0.5% ( 1.0) vmware-usbarbit : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.5% ( 1.0) kwrapper : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.5% ( 1.0) klipper : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.5% ( 1.0) artsd : hrtimer_start (it_real_fn) 0.5% ( 1.0) kwin : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.3% ( 0.7) <kernel core> : dev_watchdog (dev_watchdog) 0.3% ( 0.6) kdesktop : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.3% ( 0.5) <kernel core> : e100_watchdog (e100_watchdog) 0.2% ( 0.4) <kernel IPI> : Function call interrupts 0.2% ( 0.4) knotify : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.1% ( 0.3) <kernel core> : __enqueue_rt_entity (sched_rt_period_timer) 0.1% ( 0.2) <kernel core> : arm_supers_timer (sync_supers_timer_fn) 0.1% ( 0.2) kded : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.1% ( 0.1) lisa : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.1% ( 0.1) bdi-default : bdi_forker_task (process_timeout) 0.1% ( 0.1) flush-8:0 : schedule_timeout_interruptible (process_timeout) 0.0% ( 0.1) <interrupt> : PS/2 keyboard/mouse/touchpad 0.0% ( 0.1) <interrupt> : ata_piix 0.0% ( 0.1) <kernel IPI> : Rescheduling interrupts 0.0% ( 0.1) konsole : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.0% ( 0.1) X : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.0% ( 0.1) flush-8:0 : add_timer (commit_timeout) 0.0% ( 0.1) <kernel core> : cfq_completed_request (cfq_idle_slice_timer) 0.0% ( 0.1) flush-8:0 : blk_add_timer (blk_rq_timed_out_timer) 0.0% ( 0.1) pppd : queue_delayed_work (delayed_work_timer_fn) 0.0% ( 0.1) events/0 : queue_delayed_work (delayed_work_timer_fn) 0.0% ( 0.1) klauncher : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.0% ( 0.1) kkbswitch : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) A USB device is active 100.0% of the time: /sys/bus/usb/devices/2-1 Suggestion: Enable USB autosuspend by pressing the U key or adding usbcore.autosuspend=1 to the kernel command line in the grub config Suggestion: increase the VM dirty writeback time from 5.00 to 15 seconds with: echo 1500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs This wakes the disk up less frequently for background VM activity Suggestion: enable the power aware CPU scheduler with the following command: echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_mc_power_savings or by pressing the C key. Suggestion: Enable the CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY kernel configuration option. This option is required to get power estimages from PowerTOP Recent USB suspend statistics Active Device name 100.0% USB device 2-1.6 : USB Gaming Mouse (Logitech) 100.0% /sys/bus/usb/devices/2-1 0.0% /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-1 100.0% USB device usb2 : EHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.33-icd ehci_hcd) 0.0% USB device usb1 : EHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.33-icd ehci_hcd) -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching someone on the CC list of the bug. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ acpi-bugzilla mailing list acpi-bugzilla@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/acpi-bugzilla
