[ltp] poor battery-life on X60T

Sascha Heid linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:34:48 +0100


> And something else:
> While the Bus-Master-Activity of CPU0 is varying according to the
> CPU-Load, the Bus-Master-Activity of CPU1 is always way up (ffffffff
> almost always).

Today i noticed something funny, the Bus-Master-Activity of CPU1 is
still extremely high when the Laptop is idle, but goes down to normal
Levels (like CPU0) when i use the Laptop.
I got home from work and found the CPU-Temp at 60C (being idle), after
using the Laptop for a while it dropped to 44C.

Man this is weird, when i compile the kernel with make -j3 the
Bus-Master-Activity of both Cores is very low and only then CPU1 drops
its temp below that of CPU0.

Is this whole thing looking like i have done something terribly wrong
somewhere, because i start to wonder?