PowerTOP 1.11 (C) 2007, 2008 Intel Corporation Collecting data for 600 seconds < Detailed C-state information is not available.> P-states (frequencies) Wakeups-from-idle per second : 1132.3 interval: 600.0s no ACPI power usage estimate available Top causes for wakeups: 53.7% (2428.3) : hrtimer_start_range_ns (tick_sched_timer) 21.9% (989.4) kipmi0 : __mod_timer (process_timeout) 11.9% (537.3) : TLB shootdowns 4.4% (200.1) : __mod_timer (smi_timeout) 3.4% (151.8) : cciss0 1.7% ( 76.0) : hrtimer_start (tick_sched_timer) 1.2% ( 53.1) : Rescheduling interrupts 0.3% ( 12.7) : ipmi_si 0.3% ( 12.4) oracle : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.2% ( 10.0) : __mod_timer (ipmi_timeout) 0.2% ( 10.0) yum-updatesd : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.2% ( 9.5) java : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.1% ( 5.7) : eth0 0.1% ( 5.6) : lpfc 0.1% ( 4.0) : __mod_timer (rh_timer_func) 0.1% ( 3.0) : __mod_timer (bnx2_timer) 0.1% ( 2.8) oracle : __mod_timer (process_timeout) 0.0% ( 1.6) : uhci_hcd:usb1, hpqci 0.0% ( 1.2) hponcfg : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.0% ( 1.0) automount : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.0% ( 1.0) : __mod_timer (neigh_periodic_timer) 0.0% ( 1.0) ntpd : hrtimer_start_range_ns (it_real_fn) 0.0% ( 0.9) pdflush : __mod_timer (blk_unplug_timeout) 0.0% ( 0.6) sut_dispatcher : __enqueue_rt_entity (sched_rt_period_timer) 0.0% ( 0.6) : __mod_timer (cfq_idle_slice_timer) 0.0% ( 0.5) sleep : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.0% ( 0.4) : __mod_timer (lpfc_poll_eratt) 0.0% ( 0.4) sshd : __mod_timer (tcp_delack_timer) 0.0% ( 0.3) pdflush : __mod_timer (process_timeout) 0.0% ( 0.3) ssh : __mod_timer (tcp_delack_timer) 0.0% ( 0.2) tail : __mod_timer (tcp_write_timer) 0.0% ( 0.2) lpfc_worker_1 : __mod_timer (lpfc_hb_timeout) 0.0% ( 0.2) lpfc_worker_0 : __mod_timer (lpfc_hb_timeout) 0.0% ( 0.2) : __mod_timer (dev_watchdog) 0.0% ( 0.2) java : __mod_timer (cfq_idle_slice_timer) 0.0% ( 0.2) sendmail : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.0% ( 0.2) rpc.idmapd : __mod_timer (process_timeout) 0.0% ( 0.2) init : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.0% ( 0.2) : __mod_timer (tcp_delack_timer) 0.0% ( 0.2) ssh : __mod_timer (death_by_timeout) 0.0% ( 0.2) nc : __mod_timer (death_by_timeout) 0.0% ( 0.1) irqbalance : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.0% ( 0.1) sendmail : __mod_timer (inet_twdr_hangman) 0.0% ( 0.1) ln : __mod_timer (commit_timeout) 0.0% ( 0.1) pdflush : __mod_timer (wb_timer_fn) 0.0% ( 0.1) : __mod_timer (neigh_timer_handler) 0.0% ( 0.1) : __mod_timer (death_by_timeout) 0.0% ( 0.1) syslogd : hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup) 0.0% ( 0.1) rm : __mod_timer (commit_timeout) 0.0% ( 0.0) syslogd : __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)