powertop on Inspiron 6400

[Arjan van de Ven]

Török Edvin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have tried powertop on a Dell  Inspiron 6400 (CPU: Core Duo).
> After following some of the tips I got from 3.1h to 4h of battery. Great 
> tool!

cool!

> 
> The top wakeup cause is ide1:
> 35.2% ( 9.0)    <interrupt> : ide1
> 25.2% ( 6.6)    gnome-terminal : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
> 10.3% ( 2.7)                   Xorg: do_setitimer (it_real_fn)
> ...
> 
> Wakeups-from-idle per second: 118.9
> Power usage: 13.6W (3.9h left)
> 
> I don't know why ide1 causes so many wakeups.

maybe you have a cdrom connected there, and hal-daemon is polling your 
cdrom drive all the time?
ide1 is the 2nd controller (ide0 is the first one, normally the disk 
is on ide0 and the cdrom on ide1)


> The other "offender" is gnome-terminal, but its running nothing but
> powertop itself.

does your gnome-terminal have a blinking cursor?
>