Peter Hüwe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just launched powertop on my amd64 machine and the top wakeup cause is
>  
>   33,8% ( 92,9)      <kernel IPI> : Rescheduling interrupts
> 
> can someone tell me what this exactly means? How do I get rid of them?

these are caused by the kernel; the kernel is waking a cpu up to start 
executing code there, because the cpu that the kernel is on at that 
point is overloaded.

Having said that, I'm getting the impression the 2.6.24-rc kernel is a 
tad... too agressive in doing this

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