power consumption issues :)

[Rouslan V. Solomakhin]

On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 15:41 -0700, hirakendu das wrote:
> Btw, another thing I observed in the bad state is that if I start
> doing something heavy, say compiling or something, the interrupts per
> second come down, and down to even 150 or so per second :o. And once
> the load is done, it again comes back to 22000 per sec :(.

You mean "wakeups per second." The phenomenon of low number of wakeups
occurs because the processor is in C0 constantly. That is, the process
is always awake, never going to sleep, and therefore does not wake up.

Cheers,
Rouslan

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