Cn Avg residency P-states (frequencies) C0 (cpu running) (31.4%) 2.17 Ghz 0.7% C1 0.0ms ( 0.0%) 1.67 Ghz 0.0% C2 0.0ms ( 0.1%) 1333 Mhz 0.0% C3 0.1ms (68.5%) 1000 Mhz 99.3% Wakeups-from-idle per second : 10832.0 interval: 10.0s Power usage (5 minute ACPI estimate) : 0.2 W (463.8 hours left) Top causes for wakeups: 17.4% ( 53.1) : Rescheduling interrupts 15.7% ( 48.1) : uhci_hcd:usb1, ehci_hcd:usb5 15.7% ( 48.1) USB device 5-5.4 : Optical USB Mouse (Logitech) 13.3% ( 40.7) : extra timer interrupt 6.7% ( 20.5) Xorg : do_setitimer (it_real_fn) 6.6% ( 20.3) knotify : schedule_timeout (process_timeout) 5.1% ( 15.5) kicker : schedule_timeout (process_timeout) 3.3% ( 10.0) S11dmraid : ehci_work (ehci_watchdog) 2.4% ( 7.4) artsd : schedule_timeout (process_timeout) 2.3% ( 6.9) thunderbird-bin : futex_wait (hrtimer_wakeup) 1.6% ( 4.9) dhcdbd : schedule_timeout (process_timeout) 1.2% ( 3.7) konsole : schedule_timeout (process_timeout) 1.0% ( 3.1) : libata 0.8% ( 2.3) vmware-tray : schedule_timeout (process_timeout) 0.7% ( 2.2) : iwl3945, pciehp, eth0 0.7% ( 2.0) passkey-agent : schedule_timeout (process_timeout) 0.6% ( 1.7) : TLB shootdowns 0.3% ( 1.0) wppq : do_setitimer (it_real_fn) 0.3% ( 1.0) ifconfig : b44_open (b44_timer) 0.3% ( 1.0) klipper : schedule_timeout (process_timeout) 0.3% ( 1.0) artsd : do_setitimer (it_real_fn) 0.3% ( 1.0) watch : do_nanosleep (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.3% ( 1.0) kwrapper : do_nanosleep (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.3% ( 1.0) atieventsd : schedule_timeout (process_timeout) 0.3% ( 0.9) firefox-bin : futex_wait (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.3% ( 0.8) : cfq_completed_request (cfq_idle_slice_timer) 0.2% ( 0.6) kjobviewer : schedule_timeout (process_timeout) 0.2% ( 0.5) suspend.sh : queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn) 0.2% ( 0.5) : neigh_table_init_no_netlink (neigh_periodic_timer) 0.2% ( 0.5) : queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn) 0.2% ( 0.5) gpm : do_nanosleep (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.1% ( 0.4) kded : schedule_timeout (process_timeout) 0.1% ( 0.4) kirqd : schedule_timeout (process_timeout) 0.1% ( 0.2) : PS/2 keyboard/mouse/touchpad Suggestion: Disable the CONFIG_IRQBALANCE kernel configuration option. The in-kernel irq balancer is obsolete and wakes the CPU up far more than needed. Q - Quit R - Refresh