On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 10:50:07 +0100 Petr Vanek <[email protected]> (PV) wrote:
>>Interesting thing about current_now is that i had seen several times >>after resume value 5mA. I never seen so small value with previous >>kernels. Usual value is 12mA. I wonder if we are eating less power now >>or displaying wrong value ;-) > >Hi Radek, > >i have the same observation on 386 based machine - last night i tested >2.6.37 on my HP laptop based server here. Unfortunately, i have also >tweaked bios settings and turned off several unneeded hw features (usb, >pcmci etc) so i don't know whether this wasn t the big part of the >reason, but power consumption went down significantly. Radek, still on that x86 machine, i can see: 2.6.26 19W 2.6.30 1.9W 2.6.37 1.7W so it seems like wrong units...? Petr
