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From: Marc MERLIN <marc_powertop at merlins.org>
Subject: [Powertop] Has anyone seen power bugs from kill -STOP process before
 and after S3 sleep?
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 16:53:06 -0800
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I'm still trying to figure out why my laptop can idle at 12-13W or 20W
with no differences in processes, and why powertop (even latest, 1.25)
can provide very incorrect power values.

One thing I do that likely few people do:
killall -STOP chrome chromium firefox-bin xmms mplayer pidgin procmeter3 pl=
ugin-container

That seems to work with power of course, but I think it later causes
problem when I go to sleep (shut the lid) and come back later.

Have others seen issues with this?
It's happened for me for over a year, all the way to kernel 3.11

Could it also be generating the weird powertop behaviour I get and no
one else does?

Thanks,
Marc
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