On 03/06/2014 10:52 AM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > 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 > > Kernel is 3.13-5.1 (just a few days old), So this is happening with current kernels. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.