On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 06:43:39PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> Mark Lord wrote:
>> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>> On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:31:17 -0500
>>> Mark Lord <[email protected]> wrote:
> ...
>>>> Speaking of which.. what's with powertop on 2.6.24 ???
>>>> It's gone from 100-200 wakeups/sec to 20000 wakeups/sec !!!!!!!
>>>
>>> ho hum.. Lenovo T61?
>>> I have some reports that that happens once in a while (but it's not
>>> limited to .24 and it's also real, it's not a powertop bug but it
>>> actually is waking up that much)..
>> ..
>>
>> No, it's my hefty Dell Inspiron 9400.
>>
>> And I just figured out the powertop: it needed the kernel timers
>> patch from the powertop site that was originally for 2.6.21..
> ...
>
> Dagnabbit.. it's done it again.. went from 100-200 wakeups/sec
> back up to 20000+ wakeups/sec. This time *with* the powertop patches in place.
What is the status with an unpatched 2.6.23?
> Somethings broken in there, but I don't know what.
> Or how to make it happen on demand.. it's fine after rebooting again.
>
> ???
>
> At least now I know to look when I hear the fan turning on
> when the system is otherwise supposed to be idle..
>
> 2.6.23 did not have this problem.
Please send the output of "dmesg -s 1000000" for both 2.6.23 and 2.6.24.
cu
Adrian
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