# On BATTERY, policy: powersave (800MHz) [root@cytrynka:~]$ powertop -d PowerTOP 1.11 (C) 2007, 2008 Intel Corporation Collecting data for 15 seconds Cn Avg residency C0 (cpu running) ( 4.0%) polling 0.0ms ( 0.0%) C1 mwait 29.8ms (69.9%) C3 mwait 0.8ms (26.1%) P-states (frequencies) 1.74 Ghz 0.0% 1333 Mhz 0.0% 1067 Mhz 0.0% 800 Mhz 100.0% Wakeups-from-idle per second : 336.1 interval: 15.0s no ACPI power usage estimate available Top causes for wakeups: 21.8% ( 13.5) : i915@pci:0000:00:02.0 18.6% ( 11.5) : Rescheduling interrupts 12.9% ( 8.0) : usb_hcd_poll_rh_status (rh_timer_func) 10.1% ( 6.3) : PS/2 keyboard/mouse/touchpad 8.3% ( 5.1) : acpi 4.9% ( 3.0) : extra timer interrupt 3.5% ( 2.1) : ehci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb5, mmc0 3.2% ( 2.0) : clocksource_watchdog (clocksource_watchdog) 2.6% ( 1.6) : ehci_work (ehci_watchdog) 1.9% ( 1.2) : TLB shootdowns 1.7% ( 1.1) USB device 2-3 : DataTraveler G2 (Kingston) 1.6% ( 1.0) X : i915_add_request (delayed_work_timer_fn) 1.5% ( 0.9) fluxbox : schedule_hrtimeout_range (hrtimer_wakeup) 1.5% ( 0.9) hald-addon-stor : schedule_hrtimeout_range (hrtimer_wakeup) 1.3% ( 0.8) : ahci 0.8% ( 0.5) iwl3945 : worker_thread (delayed_work_timer_fn) 0.8% ( 0.5) leafpad : schedule_hrtimeout_range (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.5% ( 0.3) X : do_setitimer (it_real_fn) 0.4% ( 0.3) kacpi_notify : acpi_ex_system_do_suspend (process_timeout) 0.4% ( 0.3) X : schedule_hrtimeout_range (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.2% ( 0.1) terminal : schedule_hrtimeout_range (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.2% ( 0.1) : run_timer_softirq (sta_info_cleanup) 0.2% ( 0.1) : neigh_periodic_timer (neigh_periodic_timer) 0.2% ( 0.1) X : neigh_periodic_timer (neigh_periodic_timer) 0.2% ( 0.1) leafpad : futex_wait_queue_me (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.2% ( 0.1) init : schedule_hrtimeout_range (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.1% ( 0.1) events/1 : pty_write (delayed_work_timer_fn) 0.1% ( 0.1) bash : enqueue_task_rt (sched_rt_period_timer) 0.1% ( 0.1) pdflush : wb_kupdate (wb_timer_fn) A USB device is active 100.0% of the time: USB device 6-2 : Foxconn Bluetooth 2.0 plus EDR (Broadcom Corp) Suggestion: Enable USB autosuspend by pressing the U key or adding usbcore.autosuspend=1 to the kernel command line in the grub config Suggestion: Enable SATA ALPM link power management via: echo min_power > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/link_power_management_policy or press the S key. Suggestion: Disable 'hal' from polling your cdrom with: hal-disable-polling --device /dev/cdrom 'hal' is the component that auto-opens a window if you plug in a CD but disables SATA power saving from kicking in. Recent USB suspend statistics Active Device name 100.0% USB device 2-3 : DataTraveler G2 (Kingston) 100.0% USB device 6-2 : Foxconn Bluetooth 2.0 plus EDR (Broadcom Corp) 100.0% USB device 4-1 : Fingerprint Sensor () 0.0% USB device usb7 : UHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.31-ARCH uhci_hcd) 100.0% USB device usb6 : UHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.31-ARCH uhci_hcd) 0.0% USB device usb5 : UHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.31-ARCH uhci_hcd) 100.0% USB device usb4 : UHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.31-ARCH uhci_hcd) 0.0% USB device usb3 : UHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.31-ARCH uhci_hcd) 100.0% USB device usb2 : EHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.31-ARCH ehci_hcd) 0.0% USB device usb1 : EHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.31-ARCH ehci_hcd)