Thoughts on the output from a VGN-AR41E
eaglex
eaglex at gmail.com
Thu Jun 12 08:48:53 PDT 2008
Hello,
Any thoughts on the below powertop output? Is it good? is it bad? any
room for improvements?
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Cn Avg residency P-states (frequencies)
C0 (cpu running) ( 9,8%) 1,81 Ghz 2,5%
C1 0,0ms ( 0,0%) 1,80 Ghz 0,0%
C2 0,0ms ( 0,0%) 1200 Mhz 1,1%
C3 3,3ms (90,2%) 800 Mhz 96,4%
Wakeups-from-idle per second : 276,7 interval: 10,0s
Power usage (ACPI estimate): 22,0W (1,9 hours) (long term: 27,6W,/1,5h)
Top causes for wakeups:
17,1% ( 79,9) <interrupt> : extra timer interrupt
14,4% ( 67,1) firefox-bin : futex_wait (hrtimer_wakeup)
13,0% ( 60,8) <interrupt> : uhci_hcd:usb3, tifm_7xx1, yenta,
ohci1394, nvidia
11,5% ( 53,7) firefox-bin : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
9,5% ( 44,5) <interrupt> : acpi
7,5% ( 35,2) <interrupt> : uhci_hcd:usb6
7,5% ( 35,2) USB device 6-1 : PS/2+USB Mouse ()
6,3% ( 29,4) <kernel IPI> : Rescheduling interrupts
4,4% ( 20,3) <interrupt> : iwl3945
3,1% ( 14,6) X : do_setitimer (it_real_fn)
0,9% ( 4,0) <kernel core> : usb_hcd_poll_rh_status (rh_timer_func)
0,9% ( 4,0) xfce4-netload-p : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
0,8% ( 3,6) soffice.bin : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
0,5% ( 2,3) irssi : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
0,4% ( 2,0) xfce4-battery-p : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
0,3% ( 1,6) <interrupt> : PS/2 keyboard/mouse/touchpad
0,2% ( 1,0) ntpd : do_setitimer (it_real_fn)
0,2% ( 1,0) xfce4-panel : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
0,2% ( 1,0) wpa_supplicant : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
0,2% ( 1,0) X : nv_start_rc_timer (nv_kern_rc_timer)
0,2% ( 0,9) xfce4-mixer-plu : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
0,1% ( 0,5) iwl3945 : ieee80211_sta_work (ieee80211_sta_timer)
0,1% ( 0,5) wpa_cli : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
0,1% ( 0,4) <kernel core> : sk_reset_timer (tcp_delack_timer)
0,1% ( 0,3) <kernel core> : rs_tx_status (iwl3945_bg_rate_scale_flush)
0,0% ( 0,2) <kernel core> : neigh_table_init_no_netlink
(neigh_periodic_timer)
0,0% ( 0,2) pidgin : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
0,0% ( 0,2) X : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
0,0% ( 0,2) init : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
0,0% ( 0,2) firefox-bin : sk_reset_timer (tcp_write_timer)
0,0% ( 0,1) gconfd-2 : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
0,0% ( 0,1) <kernel core> : inet_initpeers (peer_check_expire)
0,0% ( 0,1) <kernel module> : sta_info_start (sta_info_cleanup)
0,0% ( 0,1) soffice.bin : futex_wait (hrtimer_wakeup)
0,0% ( 0,1) xfdesktop : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
0,0% ( 0,1) screen : do_setitimer (it_real_fn)
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