Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:39:43 +0100 From: Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: high CPU load due to powerd Message-ID: <da5cd1900511300339x2974c732r@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <da5cd1900511291336k2677b71en@mail.gmail.com> References: <da5cd1900511291336k2677b71en@mail.gmail.com>
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2005/11/29, Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@gmail.com>: > Hi list, > i'm currently running 6.0-RELEASE and i activated powerd as the syste= m > power control utility. However, using top, i'm seeing that powerd normall= y > uses nearly 18% of the CPU power, thus consuming energy and battery time > (i'm using a laptop). Another point is that i'm seeing also more than one > process named powerd. > > Is this all normal? > > For example (a part of top): > > 30397 root 1 8 0 1188K 820K nanslp 3:07 17.14% powerd > 2143 root 1 8 0 1188K 820K nanslp 1:25 2.20% powerd > 2146 root 1 8 0 1188K 820K nanslp 0:47 1.03% powerd > (plus other.....) > > Many thanks in advance, > MC > Hi, i think this behaviour has been caused by my fault. Trying to modify the power settings i called powerd more than one time thinking of an automatic adjustment; however everytime i press powerd a new process started. Just my fault, sorry, MC
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