Strange behaviour

[Chris Bandy]

npviewer.bin is part of your Flash plugin.

Felix Oxley wrote:
> Fedora 9
> powertop 1.9
> FireFox 3.0b5
>
> When I log on powertop shows <150 wakeups per second
> If I start Firefox at homepage this does not change.
> But when I type the address of a page (and press enter) wakeups goes 
> up to >5000 /s
> After that it remains high (>5000) even if I close FireFox
>
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> Wakeups-from-idle per second : 5294.8   interval: 10.0s
> no ACPI power usage estimate available
>
> Top causes for wakeups:
>   33.7% ( 99.8)      npviewer.bin : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
>   27.2% ( 80.5)      <kernel IPI> : Rescheduling interrupts
>    9.9% ( 29.4)           firefox : futex_wait (hrtimer_wakeup)
>    8.2% ( 24.3)   USB device  6-2 : PS/2+USB Mouse ()
>    4.8% ( 14.1)       <interrupt> : ata_piix, eth0, iwl4965
>    4.5% ( 13.3)       <interrupt> : uhci_hcd:usb4, uhci_hcd:usb6, HDA 
> Intel
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> Thanks
> Felix
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