andrew@fuji:~/scripts$ sudo powertop -t60 -d PowerTOP 1.12 (C) 2007, 2008 Intel Corporation Collecting data for 60 seconds Cn Avg residency C0 (cpu running) (13.6%) polling 0.0ms ( 0.0%) C1 mwait 0.1ms ( 0.1%) C4 mwait 1.5ms (86.3%) P-states (frequencies) 1300 Mhz 7.7% 1200 Mhz 1.2% 800 Mhz 91.1% Disk accesses: The application 'gnome-terminal' is writing to file '?' on /dev/dm-3 The application 'gnome-terminal' is writing to file '?' on /dev/dm-3 The application 'gnome-terminal' is writing to file '?' on /dev/dm-3 The application 'gnome-terminal' is writing to file '?' on /dev/dm-3 The application 'gnome-terminal' is writing to file '?' on /dev/dm-3 The application 'gnome-terminal' is writing to file '?' on /dev/dm-3 The application 'gwibber-service' is writing to file 'gwibber.log' on /dev/ecryptfs The application 'gwibber-service' is writing to file 'ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbE-oF' on /dev/dm-5 The application 'gwibber-service' is writing to file 'ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbE-oF' on /dev/dm-5 The application 'gwibber-service' is writing to file 'ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbE' on /dev/dm-5 The application 'flush-252:5' is writing to file 'ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FXbE-oF' on /dev/dm-5 The application 'flush-252:5' is writing to file 'ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FXbE-oF' on /dev/dm-5 The application 'firefox-bin' is writing to file 'ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FXbE-oF' on /dev/dm-5 The application 'firefox-bin' is writing to file 'ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FXbE-oF' on /dev/dm-5 The application 'firefox-bin' is writing to file 'sessionstore-1.js' on /dev/ecryptfs The application 'firefox-bin' is writing to file 'sessionstore-1.js' on /dev/ecryptfs Wakeups-from-idle per second : 573.0 interval: 60.0s Power usage (ACPI estimate): 12.6W (1.7 hours) Top causes for wakeups: 40.2% (185.2) PS/2 keyboard/mouse/touchpad interrupt 18.1% ( 83.5) [kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick 7.4% ( 34.1) [iwlagn] 5.1% ( 23.4) [i915] 3.8% ( 17.4)D firefox-bin 4.3% ( 19.9) desktopcouch-se 3.5% ( 16.3) [Rescheduling interrupts] 2.9% ( 13.5) [ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb5, uhci_hcd:usb7] 2.7% ( 12.5) USB device 1-3 : USB2.0-CRW (Generic) 1.2% ( 5.3)D gwibber-service 1.5% ( 6.8) [extra timer interrupt] 1.4% ( 6.3) [acpi] 0.0% ( 0.1)D gnome-terminal 1.1% ( 5.1) [TLB shootdowns] 1.1% ( 5.0) syndaemon 0.9% ( 4.0) [kernel core] usb_hcd_poll_rh_status (rh_timer_func) 0.7% ( 3.4) beam.smp 0.6% ( 2.6) Xorg 0.5% ( 2.4) [kernel core] hrtimer_start (tick_sched_timer) 0.1% ( 0.3)D flush-252:5 0.4% ( 1.8) kacpi_notify 0.3% ( 1.5) [ahci] 0.3% ( 1.5) [kernel core] timer_action (ehci_watchdog) 0.2% ( 1.0) conky 0.2% ( 1.0) gvfs-afc-volume 0.2% ( 1.0) tprintdaemon 0.2% ( 1.0) tpgnomeapplet 0.2% ( 1.0) ntpd 0.1% ( 0.5) udisks-daemon 0.1% ( 0.3) gnome-panel 0.1% ( 0.3) gnome-settings- 0.0% ( 0.2) flush-252:3 0.0% ( 0.2) rtkit-daemon 0.0% ( 0.2) [kernel core] inc_rt_group (sched_rt_period_timer) 0.0% ( 0.2) update-notifier 0.0% ( 0.2) flush-252:2 0.0% ( 0.2) flush-252:1 0.0% ( 0.2) bdi-default 0.0% ( 0.2) NetworkManager 0.0% ( 0.2) [kernel core] arm_supers_timer (sync_supers_timer_fn) 0.0% ( 0.2) heart 0.0% ( 0.1) [kernel core] sk_reset_timer (tcp_delack_timer) 0.0% ( 0.1) [kernel core] inet_twdr_hangman (inet_twdr_hangman) 0.0% ( 0.1) [kernel core] add_timer (sta_info_cleanup) 0.0% ( 0.1) ssh-agent 0.0% ( 0.1) gnome-power-man 0.0% ( 0.1) upowerd 0.0% ( 0.1) rsyslogd 0.0% ( 0.1) [Function call interrupts] 0.0% ( 0.1) events/1 An audio device is active 100.0% of the time: hwC0D0 Conexant CX20582 (Pebble) A USB device is active 100.0% of the time: USB device 1-3 : USB2.0-CRW (Generic) Suggestion: Enable USB autosuspend for non-input devices by pressing the U key Suggestion: increase the VM dirty writeback time from 5.00 to 15 seconds with: echo 1500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs This wakes the disk up less frequently for background VM activity Suggestion: Enable SATA ALPM link power management via: echo min_power > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/link_power_management_policy or press the S key. Suggestion: Enable wireless power saving mode by executing the following command: iwconfig wlan0 power timeout 500ms This will sacrifice network performance slightly to save power. Suggestion: enable HD audio powersave mode by executing the following command: echo 1 > /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save or by passing power_save=1 as module parameter. The program 'firefox-bin' is writing to file 'sessionstore-1.js' on /dev/ecryptfs. This prevents the disk from going to powersave mode. The program 'firefox-bin' is writing to file 'sessionstore-1.js' on /dev/ecryptfs. This prevents the disk from going to powersave mode. The program 'firefox-bin' is writing to file 'ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FXbE-oF' on /dev/dm-5. This prevents the disk from going to powersave mode. The program 'firefox-bin' is writing to file 'ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FXbE-oF' on /dev/dm-5. This prevents the disk from going to powersave mode. The program 'flush-252:5' is writing to file 'ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FXbE-oF' on /dev/dm-5. This prevents the disk from going to powersave mode. The program 'flush-252:5' is writing to file 'ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FXbE-oF' on /dev/dm-5. This prevents the disk from going to powersave mode. The program 'gwibber-service' is writing to file 'ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbE' on /dev/dm-5. This prevents the disk from going to powersave mode. The program 'gwibber-service' is writing to file 'ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbE-oF' on /dev/dm-5. This prevents the disk from going to powersave mode. The program 'gwibber-service' is writing to file 'ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbE-oF' on /dev/dm-5. This prevents the disk from going to powersave mode. The program 'gwibber-service' is writing to file 'gwibber.log' on /dev/ecryptfs. This prevents the disk from going to powersave mode. Recent USB suspend statistics Active Device name 100.0% USB device 8-1 : Broadcom Bluetooth Device (Broadcom Corp) 100.0% USB device 2-6 : Integrated Camera (SuYin) 100.0% USB device 1-5 : Qualcomm Gobi 2000 (Qualcomm Incorporated) 100.0% USB device 1-3 : USB2.0-CRW (Generic) 100.0% USB device usb8 : UHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.32-21-generic uhci_hcd) 0.0% USB device usb7 : UHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.32-21-generic uhci_hcd) 0.0% USB device usb6 : UHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.32-21-generic uhci_hcd) 0.0% USB device usb5 : UHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.32-21-generic uhci_hcd) 0.0% USB device usb4 : UHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.32-21-generic uhci_hcd) 0.0% USB device usb3 : UHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.32-21-generic uhci_hcd) 100.0% USB device usb2 : EHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.32-21-generic ehci_hcd) 100.0% USB device usb1 : EHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.32-21-generic ehci_hcd) Recent audio activity statistics Active Device name 100.0% hwC0D0 Conexant CX20582 (Pebble) 100.0% hwC0D1 Intel G45 DEVCTG Recent SATA AHCI link activity statistics Active Partial Slumber Device name