From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261384AbVHBFza (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Aug 2005 01:55:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261386AbVHBFz3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Aug 2005 01:55:29 -0400 Received: from mail19.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.200]:3214 "EHLO mail19.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261384AbVHBFyh (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Aug 2005 01:54:37 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: Lee Revell Subject: Re: [patch] i386 dynamic ticks 2.6.13-rc4 (code reordered) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 15:56:50 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony@atomide.com, tuukka.tikkanen@elektrobit.com, ck@vds.kolivas.org References: <200508021443.55429.kernel@kolivas.org> <200508021549.48711.kernel@kolivas.org> <1122961928.5490.10.camel@mindpipe> In-Reply-To: <1122961928.5490.10.camel@mindpipe> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508021556.50450.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 03:52 pm, Lee Revell wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 15:49 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > As a crude data point of idle system running a full kde desktop > > environment on > > powersave with minimal backlight and just chatting on IRC I find it's > > just > > under 10% battery life difference. > > Have you tried the same test but without artsd, or with it configured to > release the sound device after some reasonable time, like 1-2s? I have it on release after 1 second already. Cheers, Con