Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Sunday 2007-12-16 at 14:28 -0800, Linda Walsh wrote:
It _sounds_ like some power-saving feature is set to become "active" a short time after last user input (also sounds like it might be messing up; but it could be a 'feature' for some people (on laptop, on battery power - go to 'standby' 10 seconds after last mouse or keyboard input? Dunno...
Good idea... but it doesn't appear to be that easy.
Never is :-(. It would likely be at the kernel level - like the kernel is going into a "low-load" setting -- since your system isn't suspending or going to sleep. There are some cpu scheduling modules in the kernel (util 'powertop' makes suggestions for modules to include for laptop or low power systems. Something the "cpufreq_ondemand" module in the in a suse stock kernel (2.6.18.2-34) I see cpufreq modules for conservative, ondemand, powersave. In some kernel version (gee, am just so specific -- I read information in greater amounts than my brain auto-indexes... (:-)) I thought there was a bug in some later kernel version concerning the new tickless kernel and the ondemand-cpu module, but I don't think the tickless patches are in 2.6.18. I wonder if there are any ways to tweak those modules -- but it appears they would only be used on a system that has a variable cpu frequency -- so unless you have that hardware....(what hw did you say you had?)... Good luck... L -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org