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Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 15:41:13 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> To: Mark Lord <lkml@....ca> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>, "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, abelay@...ell.com, lenb@...nel.org, rjw@...k.pl, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: 20000+ wake-ups/second in 2.6.24. Bug? 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 <lkml@....ca> 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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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