slow system performance after switching to battery on my laptop
Alexander Kjäll
alex at alatest.com
Wed Oct 18 13:00:14 UTC 2006
Maybe your processor is clocked down into another power saving mode.
Gabriel M Dragffy wrote:
> This was some output of TOP, also I checked the system monitor in the
> gnome menu and nothing was misbehaving even when I viewed ALL processes.
> This is happening continuously since it was running on battery and it's
> really getting on my nerves. Thanks for your prompt reply.
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 958 ??? 16 0 398m 170m 35m R 19.2 34.5 22:33.69 firefox-bin
> 21777 ??? 36 19 90200 19m 5056 S 9.0 4.0 0:00.27
> gnome-video-thu
> 5104 root 16 0 354m 47m 24m R 5.6 9.7 79:22.41 Xorg
> 14694 ??? 15 0 83120 11m 8548 S 5.3 2.4 0:02.79 gnome-terminal
> 14484 ??? 15 0 208m 24m 9.9m S 5.0 4.9 1:21.76 xfmedia
> 12422 ??? 15 0 197m 31m 16m S 3.0 6.4 3:38.64 nautilus
> 1572 ??? 15 0 205m 29m 16m S 2.7 6.0 0:12.33 evolution
>
>
> On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 13:39 +0100, Steve Flynn wrote:
>
>> On 18/10/06, Gabriel M Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru> wrote:
>> I noticed that when my laptop (sony vaio fs115e) runs on the
>> battery my
>> system runs A LOT slower. Can I avoid this?
>>
>> Now the problem is that even though it's plugged in to the
>> wall and it's
>> been rebooted several times everything is so slow, the screen
>> savers
>> jerk across the screen at like 1fps and my game gl-f117 that
>> used to run
>> silky smooth at like 60fps is also reduced to just one frame a
>> second.
>>
>> What does "top" tell you when this occurs?
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Steve
>> Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black...
>>
>
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