Re: [patch] i386 dynamic ticks 2.6.13-rc4 (code reordered)

Lee Revell
2005-08-02T06:24:33Z

On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 15:56 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> 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.

Is there any difference in power use between this, and not running artsd
at all?

Lee