[Debburn-devel] Wodim wakeups reported by PowerTOP

Alberto Gonzalez info at gnebu.es
Tue Jan 6 01:38:23 UTC 2009


On Monday 05 January 2009, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> On the other hand ... by the time you've cranked the CD motor up to 52x
> and lit the "burn" laser, does the power use by the CPU still matter?

Yeah, that's a pretty good question. I guess that the amount of power you 
could save by reducing those wakeups to half or even a quarter amount to a 
very small percentage of what you're using if you already decided to burn a 
disk...

Thanks for the explanation, got it.
Alberto.



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