Quote Originally Posted by evolution View Post
Whoa!
After doing a very basic test in my working laptop with powertop, I found I'm having significantly more wakeups-from-idle per second with 2.6.38 (about 230) than with 2.6.35 (about 170). This means my CPU is waking up from idle more 26% than before! It's a significant difference...

I did my test only with my computer booted in OpenBox (without any programs loaded).

Btw, my laptop doesn't seem hotter with 2.6.38 than with 2.6.35, but more wakeups-from-idle per second means my CPU is spending more power...

Cheers

p.s.: I hope the kernel devs fix this problem in 2.6.39...
Please post hardware specs...

And if it's what I think it is, it won't be fixed until the 2.6.40 merge window as the soonest as this is a very invasive, core issue.