Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:50:52 +0100 | From | "J.A. Magallón" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.21-rc4: extremely high power consumption |
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:29:38 +0100, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> Hi! > > Today I heard fans running a bit too much. I checked with top, and got > no obvious power hog. And now acpi battery says: > > root@amd:/data/l/zaurus/oz.spitz.3541# cat > /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state > present: yes > capacity state: ok > charging state: discharging > present rate: 35248 mW > remaining capacity: 1850 mWh > present voltage: 14259 mV > > ...35W! This machine normally eats 14W. > > Now it got better, I still see nothing at top... 22W. That's still 8W > more than it should be. What is going on? > Pavel
Periodical disk writes that eat your battery ? No display dimming ? No cpu speed reduction ?
Just ideas...
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