zaitcev: Irony of the day

Pete Zaitcev (

zaitcev) wrote,
@ 2008-03-20 21:55:00

Entry tags:

gnome, linux

Irony of the day

Seen today:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
23015 root      20   0  311m  63m  S  1.0  7.4 148:50.50 Xorg   
23661 zaitcev   20   0  446m 9324  S  1.0  1.1 117:00.18 gnome-power-man

So, the process which is supposed to save my CPU cycles is responsible for consuming almost as much as X server, which does a heck of a lot of work. Isn't it ironic?

I suspect Gnome Power Manager loses its mind when I close the lid overnight.

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	krotty 2008-03-21 06:22 am UTC (link)
	powertop suggests killing it first time you run it. must be a known bug. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	hughsient 2008-03-24 12:00 am UTC (link)
	What's it doing? I think you are hitting a HAL bug that was fixed upstream a few weeks ago, and worked around with gnome-power-manager head. Ohh, and thanks for the blog rather than dropping me a personal note, I always feel deriding an application on a planet is a great way to get the author to help you. Happy Easter. Richard. (Reply to this)(Parent)