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Originally posted by fewt View PostIt is most likely that this is just a misconfiguration blown grossly out of proportion.
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Originally posted by fewt View PostC) The Phoronix test suite itself
(2.6.37 pretty much required a new version of Powertop, Phoronix test suite probably also needs an update)
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Originally posted by yotambien View PostIt was rhetorical. I assume you read the article and saw the plots. How do you explain them?
A) The build options between kernel versions may be different
B) Something in userspace
C) The Phoronix test suite itself
(2.6.37 pretty much required a new version of Powertop, Phoronix test suite probably also needs an update)
D) The kernel doesn't tune itself for power / battery (requiring a userspace tool like Jupiter)
It is most likely that this is just a misconfiguration blown grossly out of proportion.
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So is this a bug that affects all kernels or just Ubuntu patched ones? I don't understand this fixation on Ubuntu here (and generally). If this happens in vanilla kernels it should not just be reported to Ubuntu but to upstream Kernel development and maybe other distributors. Or did I miss something?
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Oh, and .. PowerTOP version 1.13
PowerTOP 1.97 is required to take report on and take advantage of the new powersaving features of kernel 2.6.37 and newer.
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The most common of these have been built into Jupiter.
Has the Phoronix test suite been updated to use the kernel "perf" infrastructure?
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Ugh .. Still no evidence but the sky is certainly falling.
Lenovo T400
Fuduntu 14.9 (64bit)
Kernel 2.6.38.4
Completely idle on battery for ~15 minutes.
6.36 Watts, 108 wakeups per second.
Asus Eee PC 1015PEM
Fuduntu 14.9 (32bit)
Kernel 2.6.38.4
Completely idle on battery (as before)
7.31 Watts, 135.8 wakeups per second.
As you can see from the images, even my Thinkpad is using only 6ish watts, and well under 200 wakeups per second (closer to 100 really!)..
The only reason there are 33 reports is because you asked people in your forum to report it!
Lets take a look at the data supplied in that bug report
Code:Wakeups-from-idle per second : 542.9 interval: 10.0s Power usage (ACPI estimate): 14.1W (2.4 hours) (long term: 14.7W,/2.3h) Top causes for wakeups: 25.7% (155.8) [i915] <interrupt> 13.3% ( 80.3)D chromium-browse 17.9% (108.5) [extra timer interrupt] 5.7% ( 34.7) [iwlagn] <interrupt> 5.1% ( 31.2) PS/2 keyboard/mouse/touchpad interrupt 5.0% ( 30.2) [kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick 4.9% ( 29.9) kworker/0:0 4.4% ( 26.5) [Rescheduling interrupts] <kernel IPI> 3.3% ( 20.1) compiz 0.0% ( 0.0)D flush-8:0 3.2% ( 19.6) desktopcouch-se 0.1% ( 0.7)D ntop 1.2% ( 7.3)D thunderbird-bin 1.7% ( 10.0) gwibber-service 1.6% ( 9.9) ubuntuone-syncd 1.4% ( 8.6) [TLB shootdowns] <kernel IPI> 1.4% ( 8.3) [acpi] <interrupt> 0.6% ( 3.9) [ahci] <interrupt> The program 'flush-8:0' is writing to file 'ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWY-tcU' on /dev/sda1. This prevents the disk from going to powersave mode.
Code:25.7% (155.8) [i915] <interrupt> 13.3% ( 80.3)D chromium-browse 17.9% (108.5) [extra timer interrupt] 5.1% ( 31.2) PS/2 keyboard/mouse/touchpad interrupt
375.8 wakeups per second contribute to applications
What's not reported in the bug though (and probably the root cause), top output.
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