On 04.01.2010 22:07, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: > Hello, > > pacman just brought kernel 2.6.32 for my old laptop (P3 500MHz). A > strange thing I noticed is that the fan won't go off when CPU is > idling like it used to. Using powertop I can see more than 100K > wakeups/s (extra_timer_interrupt is first on the list but I think it's > irrelevant since it only shows about 100 wakeups), and the CPU is not > going into C2 mode at all. Strangely however the cpu is 99% idle, and > top doesn't show "system" or "user" cpu usage. > > Anyone else seeing such behaviour? > > > Thanks in advance, > Dimitris > > Do you run acpi-cpufreq?
