Sven Burmeister wrote:
Am Dienstag, 15. März 2011, 17:59:00 schrieb xPol:
I have just switched to 11.4 (kde) and noticed that i cannot set the cpu frequency in powersave mode.> That's a feature, it does not make sense to set the frequency manually.
Is has. It helps to keep my laptop at noticeable lower temperature. Any other way to do that?
Although the power manager profile is set to 'powersave', my cpu frequency spends most of the time at its max value.
Run powertop so see what is causing this.
Here below the output of power top. Any hits to understand messages? Thank you --p ---- powertop output: Top causes for wakeups: 43.6% (457.1) PS/2 keyboard/mouse/touchpad interrupt 23.9% (250.2) [kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick 12.2% (128.1) [i915, eth0] <interrupt> 10.0% (104.6) rekonq 1.9% ( 20.0) knotify4 1.4% ( 14.9) Xorg 1.4% ( 14.6) plasma-desktop 0.7% ( 7.8) [ata_piix] <interrupt> 0.6% ( 6.7) kmail Suggestion: increase the VM dirty writeback time from 5.00 to 15 seconds with: echo 1500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs Suggestion: Enable the CONFIG_INOTIFY kernel configuration option. This option allows programs to wait for changes in files and directories instead of having to poll for these changes no ACPI power usage estimate available ---- -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org