PowerTOP 1.11 (C) 2007, 2008 Intel Corporation Collecting data for 100 seconds Cn Avg residency C0 (cpu running) ( 0.3%) polling 0.0ms ( 0.0%) C1 0.0ms ( 0.0%) C2 1.1ms ( 0.0%) C3 42.1ms (99.7%) P-states (frequencies) Wakeups-from-idle per second : 23.9 interval: 100.0s no ACPI power usage estimate available Top causes for wakeups: 64.2% ( 19.7) : acpi 10.6% ( 3.3) events/0 : queue_delayed_work (delayed_work_timer_fn) 9.0% ( 2.8) : extra timer interrupt 3.4% ( 1.0) kwin : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 3.3% ( 1.0) Xorg : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 3.3% ( 1.0) kwrapper : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.8% ( 0.2) : ata_piix 0.8% ( 0.2) NetworkManager : atl2_open (atl2_watchdog) 0.7% ( 0.2) : page_writeback_init (wb_timer_fn) 0.7% ( 0.2) kded : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.6% ( 0.2) init : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.4% ( 0.1) : add_timer (neigh_periodic_timer) 0.4% ( 0.1) : add_timer (neigh_periodic_timer) 0.3% ( 0.1) ssh-agent : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.3% ( 0.1) kdesktop : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.2% ( 0.1) konsole : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.2% ( 0.1) knetworkmanager : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.2% ( 0.1) kmix : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.1% ( 0.0) kicker : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.1% ( 0.0) hald : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.1% ( 0.0) async/1 : blk_add_timer (blk_rq_timed_out_timer) 0.1% ( 0.0) pdflush : blk_plug_device (blk_unplug_timeout) 0.1% ( 0.0) : queue_delayed_work (delayed_work_timer_fn) 0.0% ( 0.0) : PS/2 keyboard/mouse/touchpad 0.0% ( 0.0) : uhci_hcd:usb5, HDA Intel, i915@pci:0000:00:02.0 0.0% ( 0.0) : queue_delayed_work (delayed_work_timer_fn) 0.0% ( 0.0) hd-audio0 : schedule_timeout_uninterruptible (process_timeout) 0.0% ( 0.0) cron : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.0% ( 0.0) rsyslogd : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.0% ( 0.0) khungtaskd : schedule_timeout_interruptible (process_timeout) 0.0% ( 0.0) : add_timer (addrconf_verify) 0.0% ( 0.0) : add_timer (peer_check_expire) A USB device is active 100.0% of the time: USB device 1-5 : UB6225 (ENE) Suggestion: Enable USB autosuspend by pressing the U key or adding usbcore.autosuspend=1 to the kernel command line in the grub config Suggestion: increase the VM dirty writeback time from 5.00 to 15 seconds with: echo 1500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs This wakes the disk up less frequently for background VM activity Recent USB suspend statistics Active Device name 100.0% USB device 1-5 : UB6225 (ENE) 0.0% USB device usb5 : UHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.30-rc1eeepc uhci_hcd) 0.0% USB device usb4 : UHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.30-rc1eeepc uhci_hcd) 0.0% USB device usb3 : UHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.30-rc1eeepc uhci_hcd) 0.0% USB device usb2 : UHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.30-rc1eeepc uhci_hcd) 100.0% USB device usb1 : EHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.30-rc1eeepc ehci_hcd)