90 wakeups per second on idle ide0

[David Rees]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Jan Ceuleers
<jan.ceuleers at computer.org> wrote:
> Jan Ceuleers wrote:
>> That's surprising because the machine is diskless. The ide0 interface
>> does serve a DVD drive, but it's idle (no disk in the drive).
>
> I should have added that stopping hal does not reduce the wakeup rate on
> ide0 significantly (it remains around 85/s).

What's the output of `powertop -d` look like?

-Dave