Confirmed on a ThinkPad X61. This is new in Lucid Alpha 3, wasn't there
in Alpha 2.
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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Tens of wakes per second in [kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick on Core 2
Duo with 1 core disabled in BIOS
I should also mention that I don't have a core disabled in the BIOS, I
am using both cores. It shouldn't matter.
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Tens of wakes per second in [kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick on Core 2
Duo with 1 core disabled in BIOS
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/524281
You received this bug
# powertop -d
PowerTOP 1.12 (C) 2007, 2008 Intel Corporation
Collecting data for 15 seconds
Your CPU supports the following C-states : C1 C2 C3 C4
Your BIOS reports the following C-states : C1 C2 C3
CnAvg residency
C0 (cpu running)(31.1%)
C00.0ms (
Notably, events/0 and events/1 are getting tons of CPU time:
# ps -fe | grep events
root 9 2 5 20:58 ?00:04:46 [events/0]
root 1016 1 0 20:58 ?00:00:00 acpid -c /etc/acpi/events -s
/var/run/acpid.socket
root 3473 2 49 22:19 ?00:05:16
** Attachment added: AlsaDevices.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39394931/AlsaDevices.txt
** Attachment added: AplayDevices.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39394932/AplayDevices.txt
** Attachment added: BootDmesg.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39394933/BootDmesg.txt
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** Description changed:
powertop reports above 70 wakes per second in [kernel scheduler] Load
balancing tick task, and above 200 when there's any little load, running on a
Core 2 Duo processor (T6500) with a single core enabled (multicore disabled in
BIOS).
- Will still try disabling apic,
