slow system performance after switching to battery on my laptop

[Alexander Kjäll]

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
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> 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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