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Re: [trinity-devel] BUG - tdepowersave Grabbing 97% of CPU - overheating laptop

From: "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@...>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 17:52:11 +0100
Am Donnerstag, 6. März 2014 schrieb David C. Rankin:
> All,
> 
>   Testing the new soft-freeze packages has disclosed a horrible problem with
> tdepowersave taking nearly 100% of the CPU. My laptop was nearly on fire this
> morning:
> 
> [screenshot]
> http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/ss/tdeowersave-97percent.jpg
> 
>   Earlier in development I saw tdepowesave in the 20-40% range, but never at
> near 100% of CPU. What to try?
> 

What kernel do you use? I had the same problem on wheezy with 3.5.13.2. tdepowersave took 100% of one core. It occured after tdepowersave put the x61 to powersave the second time. It looks like the problem went away after changing to kernel 3.12-0.bpo.1.

nik


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