On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 03:15:59 -0500, Jesse Luehrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:54:52 -0500 > Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:11:51 -0500, Alec Robertson >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > I've been using powertop to reduce the number of wakeups on my >> > laptop, and >> > currently enlightenment is top of the list at around 4 per second. >> > Is there a >> > setting to reduce this, or failing that, a patch floating around? >> > Regards, >> > Alec >> >> AFIAK there aren't any patches floating around, but you can change >> polling intevals >> for modules and tweak the configs, closing all the windows etc. I >> think the 3rd party >> net/wlan modules caused a lot more wakes than just 4. I'm not sure >> how low you can go, >> since I can't see less than 61 wakes from the radeon driver, but with >> e17 idle in xorg, >> I get 99% of the time in C3. On my system, there are a lot of >> things waking below e17 >> which quickly adds beyond the 2-5 polls/sec I get from e, giving a >> much less marginal >> benefit. >> --Kent > > As a followup to this, the net module on my system accounts for nearly > all of the wakeups due to enlightenment on my system - unloading the > module brings enlightenment down from 38 wakeups/sec to 7 wakeups/sec > (and this is with about 14 other modules loaded). Something to look > into maybe? (The fglrx driver is the cause of around 100 wakeups/sec on > my system, so it's not too much of an issue for me, but maybe for other > people.) > > Jesse Luehrs > Yeah, there isn't any listed configuration to change the polling on the net module, which seems to add about 14-20 wakes on my system. The video driver wakes generally match your display refresh rate, which from what I've read goes back to openGL wanting to know when there screen has refreshed. --Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
