686 kernel wastes CPU power

[Michael V. De Palatis]

Matt,

Odd. I assume that you tried restarting with the 686 kernel? Every
once in a while, however rare, restarting fixes things in Linux. It is
almost never the case that it will really do the trick though, as
Linux is almost never as finicky as some other operating systems...

But really, I have no idea what would do this. Just for kicks, you
could try compiling the kernel yourself and see if that changes
anything? There shouldn't be any major differences in the kernels
other than what CPU they are compiled for.

Sorry I can't offer up any better reasons or suggestions.

Mike

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 08:56:10AM -0400, Matt Patterson wrote:
> I just ran a dapper update a few days ago, and at the same time I switched
> to the 686 kernel (had been running 386 kernel). After the update I noticed
> a huge hit to my CPU usage (sucking down my battery life). Just sitting in
> gnome with a terminal running top could take 11% and running the system
> monitor would take 40%. I went back to the 386 kernel (the newest dapper
> one) and those numbers dropped to 0.1% and 5% respectively.
> 
> Anybody have any clues?
> 
> Matt

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