Re: [wmii] wmii hg devel, increased cpu wakeups-from-idle

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 03:37:32PM +0100, Martin Kraus wrote:
>Hi. I've migrated from the "stable" wmii(20080530 or similar) to development
>version and I've noticed increased wakeups-from-idle when measured with
>powertop. It used to be something like 13 wakeups, now its 40+.
>I've tested simple X(without any wm) with xterm and I get 2 wakeups in this way,
>so I guess it's not a problem with the rest of my system.
>
>Also the weird thing is, powertop doesn't show any processes with many
>wakeups. the largest event is hrtimer_start with 3.5 wakeups. If I sum up the
>rest of what powertop shows I get something around 6 wakeups so there must
>be either hundreds of little wakeups or there is something seriously wrong.
>
>Is anyone else experiencing similar problem? Could this really be related to
>wmii or is it something else?

That's strange. I can't really think of anything wmii would do
to trigger wakeups, except perhaps in the rc code. Have you
tried without any status scripts running?

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