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

> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:39:06PM -0400, Kris Maglione wrote:
> > 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?

You were right. Started with just /bin/true in wmiirc and with urxvt and
powertop I'm under 10 wakeups. So the problem is with the scripts. I'm using
standard scripts that come with devel release. Guess it's time to read through
them to find out what is happening.

mk
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