On Saturday 01 of February 2014 19:24:39 David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 02/01/2014 12:13 PM, Slávek Banko wrote:
> > On Saturday 01 of February 2014 19:04:56 David C. Rankin wrote:
> >> Darrell, Slavek, All,
> >>
> >>   On your R14 install, open a 'top' or 'htop' window and tell me what
> >> your 'tdepowersave' use is.
> >>
> >>   By far -- tdepowersave is the top CPU user on my build continually
> >> taking more than any other process. This is not right. It is using 2x-3x
> >> more CPU than X or kded and is continually at the top of the list. It
> >> never stops.
> >>
> >>   What do you see?
> >
> > Soon I will have completed a patch for tdepowersave (related to bug
> > 1597). Let's wait with further research after this patch.
> >
> > Slavek
>
> Ok,
>
>   Is there any suggestion for managing tdepowersave CPU use in the interim?
> If I have it running in virtualbox on my laptop, then my palmrest gets
> fairly warm ;-)

I have tdepowersave on the two test virtual machines in KVM (first Debian 
7.3 - Wheezy, second Ubuntu 13.10 - Saucy) and tdepowersave (with a patch, 
which I'm finishing) I have constantly at 0% CPU. On the real machine (with 
battery) I have not tested it yet.

Slavek
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