I am attaching the output from an execution of "powertop -d" on my system. During this run, espeakup had an average of 1669.1 wakeups / second. Regards, -- Chris -------------- next part -------------- PowerTOP 1.11 (C) 2007, 2008 Intel Corporation Collecting data for 15 seconds < Detailed C-state information is not available.> P-states (frequencies) Wakeups-from-idle per second : 2075.9 interval: 15.0s no ACPI power usage estimate available Top causes for wakeups: 80.4% (1669.1) espeakup : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 14.9% (309.2) <interrupt> : VIA8237 2.5% ( 51.1) <interrupt> : ra0 1.3% ( 26.3) <kernel core> : hrtimer_start_range_ns (tick_sched_timer) 0.4% ( 8.0) <kernel module> : usb_hcd_poll_rh_status (rh_timer_func) 0.2% ( 3.3) <interrupt> : PS/2 keyboard/mouse/touchpad 0.1% ( 2.0) <kernel core> : clocksource_register (clocksource_watchdog) 0.1% ( 1.5) emacs : synth_printf (thread_wake_up) 0.0% ( 1.0) dhcpcd : MlmeInit (MlmePeriodicExec) 0.0% ( 0.3) <kernel core> : neigh_table_init_no_netlink (neigh_periodic_timer) 0.0% ( 0.3) <kernel module> : neigh_table_init_no_netlink (neigh_periodic_timer) 0.0% ( 0.2) <interrupt> : sata_via 0.0% ( 0.2) init : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.0% ( 0.2) <kernel core> : page_writeback_init (wb_timer_fn) 0.0% ( 0.1) kinit : start_this_handle (commit_timeout) 0.0% ( 0.1) events/0 : queue_delayed_work (delayed_work_timer_fn) 0.0% ( 0.1) mpd : announce_edge (kd_nosound) 0.0% ( 0.1) <kernel core> : announce_edge (kd_nosound)
