Public bug reported: Binary package hint: knetworkmanager
Using powertop I found out that knetworkmanager causes from 15 to 20 wakeups per second. That is far too much for normal operations. These 20 still occur if wlan is deactivated by hardware switch while knetworkmanager is running. If wlan is deactivated before knetworkmanager is started the wakeups do not occur but wlan promptly starts to work. So the wakeups are not necessary, at least not, if wlan is not active. Using strace (log attached) once can see - many select calls with dynamic timeouts, which are 0.1 seconds and less - many reads returning EAGAIN (maybe read inspite select ended with timeout) - many fstat calls Top causes for wakeups: [..] 23,1% ( 17,4) knetworkmanager : schedule_timeout (process_timeout) [..] This does seriously decrease battery lifetime and is so quite bad for laptop users. ** Affects: knetworkmanager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- [intrepid] KNetworkManager causes ~20 wakeups/second https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276138 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs