PowerTOP 1.12 (C) 2007, 2008 Intel Corporation Collecting data for 15 seconds Cn Avg residency C0 (cpu running) ( 2.7%) polling 0.0ms ( 0.0%) C1 mwait 0.0ms ( 0.0%) C2 mwait 0.0ms ( 0.0%) C3 mwait 151.8ms (97.3%) P-states (frequencies) Turbo Mode 0.0% 2.67 Ghz 0.0% 2.54 Ghz 0.0% 2.40 Ghz 0.0% 1.60 Ghz 100.0% Wakeups-from-idle per second : 6.4 interval: 15.0s no ACPI power usage estimate available Top causes for wakeups: 38.4% ( 11.2) [extra timer interrupt] 29.7% ( 8.7) [kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick 11.2% ( 3.3) [kernel core] hrtimer_start (tick_sched_timer) 7.1% ( 2.1) [Rescheduling interrupts] 6.9% ( 2.0) [kernel core] add_timer_on (clocksource_watchdog) 1.8% ( 0.5) events/3 1.6% ( 0.5) [eth0] 0.7% ( 0.2) [kernel core] __mod_timer (dev_watchdog) 0.5% ( 0.1) [ata_piix, ata_piix] 0.2% ( 0.1) [kernel core] __mod_timer (tcp_delack_timer) 0.2% ( 0.1) sshd 0.2% ( 0.1) [kernel core] enqueue_task_rt (sched_rt_period_timer) 0.2% ( 0.1) expr 0.2% ( 0.1) [kernel core] __mod_timer (cfq_idle_slice_timer) 0.2% ( 0.1) [kernel core] queue_delayed_work (delayed_work_timer_fn) 0.2% ( 0.1) [kernel core] __mod_timer (peer_check_expire) 0.2% ( 0.1) [kernel core] __mod_timer (neigh_timer_handler) 0.2% ( 0.1) [kernel core] __mod_timer (sync_supers_timer_fn) Suggestion: Enable the CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND kernel configuration option. This option will automatically disable UHCI USB when not in use, and may save approximately 1 Watt of power. Recent USB suspend statistics Active Device name Recent audio activity statistics Active Device name Recent SATA AHCI link activity statistics Active Partial Slumber Device name