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  1. Bug #120242
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 120242

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Michael Bienia (geser) wrote :

Without synaptic my notebook has between 100 and 200 wakeups per second. So synaptic alone makes 5 to 10 times more wakeups per second than the sum of the remaining processes.

The powertop website (http://www.linuxpowertop.org/powertop.php) mentions that "When running a full GNOME desktop, 3 wakeups per second is achievable.".
200 wakeups per second is not very good. Creating 1000 wakeups per second from one process is IMHO very bad.