2.6.37

Petr Vanek vanous at penguin.cz
Sat Jan 8 11:32:26 CET 2011


On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 10:50:07 +0100
Petr Vanek <vanous at penguin.cz> (PV) wrote:

>>Interesting thing about current_now is that i had seen several times
>>after resume value 5mA. I never seen so small value with previous
>>kernels. Usual value is 12mA. I wonder if we are eating less power now
>>or displaying wrong value ;-)
>
>Hi Radek,
>
>i have the same observation on 386 based machine - last night i tested
>2.6.37 on my HP laptop based server here. Unfortunately, i have also
>tweaked bios settings and turned off several unneeded hw features (usb,
>pcmci etc) so i don't know whether this wasn t the big part of the
>reason, but power consumption went down significantly.

Radek,

still on that x86 machine, i can see:

2.6.26 19W
2.6.30 1.9W
2.6.37 1.7W

so it seems like wrong units...?

Petr





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