On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 09:41:06PM +0000, Roger Hayter wrote:
In message <20071216050549.GA7706@suse.de>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> writes
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 11:04:20PM +0000, Roger Hayter wrote:
Can anyone advise me where to look in order to trace this problem further?
The load idle seems a bit high for just sitting there and doing nothing.
Can you run 'powertop' while in text mode (no X running) and see what is showing up as being the thing that is waking the processor up the most?
Hopefully that tool will work, but I don't know, as that is a very old processor.
Many thanks for your suggestion. Powertop shows that there are about 250 interrupt events per second, 95%+ being "extra timer interrupts". The answer is about the same whether or not I enable ACPI in the kernel, except for some not wholly credible figures are added (C3 state 159% for example) if I enable ACPI.
Hm, it sounds like powertop will just not work for your older processor, as it is not exporting the information that powertop needs in order to try to figure these things out :( I really don't know what else to suggest at this time, sorry. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org