PowerTOP 1.11 (C) 2007, 2008 Intel Corporation Collecting data for 300 seconds < Detailed C-state information is not available.> P-states (frequencies) Wakeups-from-idle per second : 1352.8 interval: 300.0s no ACPI power usage estimate available Top causes for wakeups: 42.3% (2285.2) : hrtimer_start_range_ns (tick_sched_timer) 24.2% (1308.3) : Rescheduling interrupts 18.2% (985.7) kipmi0 : __mod_timer (process_timeout) 3.7% (200.0) : __mod_timer (smi_timeout) 3.6% (195.4) : hrtimer_start (tick_sched_timer) 1.5% ( 81.2) : lpfc 1.3% ( 69.8) driver : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.9% ( 50.3) oracle : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.7% ( 35.4) driver : __mod_timer (tcp_delack_timer) 0.7% ( 35.3) tnslsnr : __mod_timer (tcp_delack_timer) 0.7% ( 35.2) tnslsnr : __mod_timer (tcp_write_timer) 0.6% ( 35.1) driver : __mod_timer (tcp_write_timer) 0.3% ( 18.8) : cciss0 0.2% ( 13.3) : ipmi_si 0.2% ( 11.2) oracle : __mod_timer (process_timeout) 0.2% ( 10.0) : __mod_timer (ipmi_timeout) 0.2% ( 10.0) yum-updatesd : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.1% ( 5.9) : eth0 0.1% ( 4.5) : TLB shootdowns 0.1% ( 4.0) : __mod_timer (rh_timer_func) 0.1% ( 3.0) : __mod_timer (bnx2_timer) 0.0% ( 1.0) automount : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.0% ( 1.0) bash : __enqueue_rt_entity (sched_rt_period_timer) 0.0% ( 1.0) ntpd : hrtimer_start_range_ns (it_real_fn) 0.0% ( 1.0) : __mod_timer (neigh_periodic_timer) 0.0% ( 0.6) sleep : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.0% ( 0.5) oracle : __mod_timer (death_by_timeout) 0.0% ( 0.3) sshd : __mod_timer (tcp_write_timer) 0.0% ( 0.2) sshd : __mod_timer (tcp_delack_timer) 0.0% ( 0.2) ssh : __mod_timer (tcp_delack_timer) 0.0% ( 0.2) : __mod_timer (tcp_delack_timer) 0.0% ( 0.2) tail : __mod_timer (tcp_write_timer) 0.0% ( 0.2) : __mod_timer (lpfc_poll_eratt) 0.0% ( 0.2) lpfc_worker_0 : __mod_timer (lpfc_hb_timeout) 0.0% ( 0.2) : __mod_timer (dev_watchdog) 0.0% ( 0.2) lpfc_worker_1 : __mod_timer (lpfc_hb_timeout) 0.0% ( 0.2) ksoftirqd/0 : __mod_timer (lpfc_poll_eratt) 0.0% ( 0.2) rpc.idmapd : __mod_timer (process_timeout) 0.0% ( 0.2) sendmail : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.0% ( 0.2) init : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.0% ( 0.1) : __mod_timer (inet_twdr_hangman) 0.0% ( 0.1) avahi-daemon : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.0% ( 0.1) oracle : __mod_timer (tcp_write_timer) 0.0% ( 0.1) oracle : __mod_timer (tcp_delack_timer) 0.0% ( 0.1) : __mod_timer (neigh_timer_handler) 0.0% ( 0.1) oracle : __mod_timer (commit_timeout) 0.0% ( 0.1) tnslsnr : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.0% ( 0.1) irqbalance : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.0% ( 0.1) nc : __mod_timer (death_by_timeout) 0.0% ( 0.1) attach_strace.s : __mod_timer (commit_timeout) A USB device is active 100.0% of the time: USB device 1-1 : Virtual Keyboard (HP) Suggestion: Enable USB autosuspend by pressing the U key or adding usbcore.autosuspend=1 to the kernel command line in the grub config Recent USB suspend statistics Active Device name 0.0% USB device usb3 : EHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.31-rc5 ehci_hcd) 100.0% USB device 1-2 : Virtual Hub (HP) 100.0% USB device 1-1 : Virtual Keyboard (HP) 0.0% USB device usb2 : OHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.31-rc5 ohci_hcd) 100.0% USB device usb1 : UHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.31-rc5 uhci_hcd)