Some further searching turned up this relevant thread on the kernel mailing list:
http://www.listware.net/201007/linux-kernel/16253-high-power- consumption-in-recent-kernels.html A patch is tested there which resulted in a very big reduction in wakeups and power consumption. There is a lot of technical discussion in that thread which I did not understand but seems important. Comments by a Ubuntu kernel expert would be very welcome..... -- 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 Registry Administrators, which is the registrant for Debian. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~registry Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~registry More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
