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Hi, |
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When running powertop on an idle system, I noticed that "emerge" is in |
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the list of items causing wake-ups. It is virtually always 8.0 |
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wake-ups per 10 second sample (occasionally 8.1 wake-ups, maybe a |
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result of rounding). It is always there. |
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The puzzling bit is that emerge is not running at all. I do not have |
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any cron jobs running emerge. "ps aux | grep emerge" shows nothing. |
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Even when I am running emerge, even when emerge is using 100% cpu |
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time, the "emerge" entry in powertop remains at 8.0. ("[kernel |
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scheduler] Load balancing tick" is what represents almost all real |
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activity.) |
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My uname -a: |
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Linux black 2.6.35.5 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Sep 23 00:04:26 CDT 2010 |
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x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux |
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Using powertop-1.13 on ~amd64. |
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Maybe powertop needs to be updated for newer kernels? Mabye "emerge" |
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has an alternative meaning inside of powertop or linux kernel? A |
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search of the source code of both don't reveal anything that I can |
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see... |
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Do any of you have "emerge" in your powertop output? Does anyone know |
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what this means? |
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Thanks, |
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Paul |
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