PowerTOP Versionv2.0
Kernel VersionLinux version 3.2.0-4-amd64 (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Debian 4.6.3-14) ) #1 SMP Debian 3.2.41-2+deb7u2
System NameDell Inc. 04G65K A07
CPU Information4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2370M CPU @ 2.40GHz
OS InformationDebian GNU/Linux 7.0 (wheezy)

Power Consumption Summary

206.7 wakeups/second, 0.0 GPU ops/second, 0.0 VFS ops/sec, 0.0 GFX wakes/sec and 3.2% CPU use

UsageEvents/sCategoryDescription
100.0%DeviceAudio codec hwC0D0: Conexant
0.4% 43.4Process[rts5139-polling]
0.2% 20.7Interrupt[16] ehci_hcd:usb1
0.1% 20.6Interrupt[1] timer(softirq)
0.1% 18.8Interrupt[45] i915@pci:0000:00:02.0
0.0% 13.4InterruptPS/2 Touchpad / Keyboard / Mouse
0.3% 10.7Process/usr/bin/Xorg :0 -br -verbose -novtswitch -auth /var/run/gdm3/auth-for-Debian-gdm-2ghtR2/database -nolisten tcp vt7
0.0% 10.2Timerprocess_timeout
0.5% 7.8Process/usr/bin/gnome-shell
0.1% 9.3Process/usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --plugin-dir=/usr/lib/mysql/plugin --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/run/my

Processor Idle state report

Package  Core  CPU 0 CPU 1
  C0 active 0.9% 0.2%
  POLL 0.0% 0.0 ms 0.0% 0.0 ms
  C1-SNB 0.1% 0.2 ms 0.0% 0.1 ms
C2 (pc2) 2.3%  
C3 (pc3) 0.2% C3 (cc3) 0.1% C3-SNB 0.2% 0.7 ms 0.0% 1.4 ms
C6 (pc6) 7.4% C6 (cc6) 0.0% C6-SNB 0.0% 1.9 ms 0.0% 0.0 ms
C7 (pc7) 84.6% C7 (cc7) 95.6% C7-SNB 97.2% 5.0 ms 99.4% 46.9 ms
   Core  CPU 2 CPU 3
   C0 active 0.5% 0.1%
   POLL 0.0% 0.0 ms 0.0% 0.0 ms
   C1-SNB 0.0% 0.1 ms 0.0% 0.1 ms
   
  C3 (cc3) 0.1% C3-SNB 0.1% 1.0 ms 0.0% 0.4 ms
  C6 (cc6) 0.0% C6-SNB 0.0% 0.0 ms 0.0% 0.0 ms
  C7 (cc7) 98.0% C7-SNB 98.5% 21.8 ms 99.7% 65.0 ms

Processor frequency report

Package  Core  CPU 0 CPU 1
  Actual 847 MHz 852 MHz
2.40 GHz 0.1%  2.40 GHz 0.1%  2.40 GHz 0.1% 0.0%
2.31 GHz 0.0%  2.31 GHz 0.0%  2.31 GHz 0.0% 0.0%
2.21 GHz 0.0%  2.21 GHz 0.0%  2.21 GHz 0.0% 0.0%
2.10 GHz 0.0%  2.10 GHz 0.0%  2.10 GHz 0.0% 0.0%
2.00 GHz 0.0%  2.00 GHz 0.0%  2.00 GHz 0.0% 0.0%
1.91 GHz 0.0%  1.91 GHz 0.0%  1.91 GHz 0.0% 0.0%
1.80 GHz 0.0%  1.80 GHz 0.0%  1.80 GHz 0.0% 0.0%
1.71 GHz 0.0%  1.71 GHz 0.0%  1.71 GHz 0.0% 0.0%
1500 MHz 0.0%  1500 MHz 0.0%  1500 MHz 0.0% 0.0%
1400 MHz 0.0%  1400 MHz 0.0%  1400 MHz 0.0% 0.0%
   Core  CPU 2 CPU 3
   Actual 823 MHz 862 MHz
  2.40 GHz 0.0%  2.40 GHz 0.0% 0.0%
  2.31 GHz 0.0%  2.31 GHz 0.0% 0.0%
  2.21 GHz 0.0%  2.21 GHz 0.0% 0.0%
  2.10 GHz 0.0%  2.10 GHz 0.0% 0.0%
  2.00 GHz 0.0%  2.00 GHz 0.0% 0.0%
  1.91 GHz 0.0%  1.91 GHz 0.0% 0.0%
  1.80 GHz 0.0%  1.80 GHz 0.0% 0.0%
  1.71 GHz 0.0%  1.71 GHz 0.0% 0.0%
  1500 MHz 0.0%  1500 MHz 0.0% 0.0%
  1400 MHz 0.0%  1400 MHz 0.0% 0.0%

Overview of Software Power Consumers

UsageWakeups/sGPU ops/sDisk IO/sGFX Wakeups/sCategoryDescription
4.3 ms/s 43.4Process[rts5139-polling]
2.2 ms/s 20.7Interrupt[16] ehci_hcd:usb1
1.0 ms/s 20.6Interrupt[1] timer(softirq)
1.1 ms/s 18.8Interrupt[45] i915@pci:0000:00:02.0
330.9 us/s 13.4InterruptPS/2 Touchpad / Keyboard / Mouse
2.5 ms/s 10.7Process/usr/bin/Xorg :0 -br -verbose -novtswitch -auth /var/run/gdm3/auth-for-Debian-gdm-2ghtR2/database -nolisten tcp vt7
159.4 us/s 10.2Timerprocess_timeout
5.5 ms/s 7.8Process/usr/bin/gnome-shell
0.9 ms/s 9.3Process/usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --plugin-dir=/usr/lib/mysql/plugin --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/run/my
292.6 us/s 7.3Timerehci_watchdog
1.1 ms/s 5.8Process/usr/lib/tracker/tracker-extract
261.3 us/s 5.6Timertimeout_func
1.5 ms/s 3.2Processgnome-terminal
268.4 us/s 2.9Process[rts5139-control]
214.1 us/s 2.4Process/opt/teamviewer8/tv_bin/teamviewerd -d
303.6 us/s 2.3Process/usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
0.0 us/s 1.9kWorkdisk_events_workfn
163.0 us/s 1.8kWorkcache_reap
694.1 us/s 1.5Process/usr/lib/tracker/tracker-miner-fs
13.1 us/s 1.4Timerclocksource_watchdog
2.1 ms/s 0.4Process/home/asuglia/.dropbox-dist/dropbox
71.9 us/s 1.2Process/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-afc-volume-monitor
8.7 us/s 1.1kWorkwq_barrier_func
102.9 us/s 1.0Process[scsi_eh_2]
175.2 us/s 0.9Processudisks-daemon: polling /dev/sr0 /dev/sdb
36.2 us/s 0.8Process[ksoftirqd/2]
152.2 us/s 0.7Interrupt[4] block(softirq)
380.1 us/s 0.6Process/usr/lib/tracker/tracker-store
108.4 us/s 0.7Interrupt[41] SATA controller
350.1 us/s 0.6Process/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
40.5 us/s 0.7kWorki915_gem_retire_work_handler
7.6 us/s 0.6Timerintel_gpu_idle_timer
0.8 ms/s 0.3Interrupt[7] sched(softirq)
46.9 us/s 0.6Process[ksoftirqd/0]
11.1 us/s 0.6kWorkpci_pme_list_scan
0.9 us/s 0.6kWorkscsi_requeue_run_queue
1.3 ms/sTimerdelayed_work_timer_fn
1.1 ms/skWorkdo_dbs_timer
0.9 us/s 0.4kWorkcfq_kick_queue
76.5 us/s 0.4Process/usr/lib/telepathy/mission-control-5
38.4 us/s 0.3Process[jbd2/sda1-8]
148.1 us/s 0.25Process/usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
23.5 us/s 0.25Process[ksoftirqd/3]
215.7 us/s 0.15Process/usr/lib/upower/upowerd
575.3 us/sProcess[kworker/0:3]
12.1 us/s 0.20Processinit [2]
11.2 us/s 0.20Process/usr/lib/rtkit/rtkit-daemon
2.3 us/s 0.20Process[fsnotify_mark]
1.8 us/s 0.20kWorkblk_delay_work
501.3 us/sProcess[kworker/0:0]
93.3 us/s 0.15Processx-session-manager
28.4 us/s 0.15Processgnome-screensaver
18.6 us/s 0.15Process/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd
13.4 us/s 0.15Process/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor
10.9 us/s 0.15Process/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor
7.6 us/s 0.15Process[ksoftirqd/1]
368.5 us/sProcess[kworker/2:3]
65.4 us/s 0.10Processudevd
273.9 us/sProcess[kworker/1:0]
8.0 us/s 0.10Processudevd --daemon
5.2 us/s 0.10kWorkgen6_pm_rps_work
4.2 us/s 0.10Process/usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session x-session-manager
2.1 us/s 0.10kWorkneigh_periodic_work
0.9 us/s 0.10Timercommit_timeout
40.2 us/s 0.05Processdbus-daemon
166.7 us/sInterrupt[9] RCU(softirq)
22.6 us/s 0.05Process[flush-8:0]
20.1 us/s 0.05Processpowertop --html
13.1 us/s 0.05Process/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize --login
10.1 us/s 0.05Process/usr/lib/gnome-disk-utility/gdu-notification-daemon
8.6 us/s 0.05Processpool
7.5 us/s 0.05Process/usr/lib/gnome-shell/gnome-shell-calendar-server
6.2 us/s 0.05Process[khungtaskd]
3.4 us/s 0.05Process/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gconf/gconfd-2
2.3 us/s 0.05Process/sbin/rpcbind -w
2.3 us/s 0.05Timerintel_crtc_idle_timer
1.9 us/s 0.05Process/opt/teamviewer8/tv_bin/wine/bin/wineserver
0.7 us/s 0.05Timercfq_idle_slice_timer
0.5 us/s 0.05Timeri915_hangcheck_elapsed
0.5 us/s 0.05Timerlaptop_mode_timer_fn
122.4 us/sProcess[kworker/3:0]
33.7 us/skWorkvmstat_update
26.5 us/sProcess[kworker/2:0]
15.8 us/sProcess[kworker/u:32]
14.4 us/sInterrupt[3] net_rx(softirq)
10.9 us/sProcess/usr/sbin/NetworkManager
10.7 us/sProcessnm-applet
8.6 us/sProcess/usr/lib/evolution/3.4/evolution-alarm-notify
4.5 us/sProcess/usr/sbin/cron
1.4 us/sProcess[migration/2]
0.6 us/sProcess[kworker/2:2]
0.3 us/sInterrupt[8] hrtimer(softirq)
0.2 us/sTimerblk_rq_timed_out_timer

Device Power Report

The battery reports a discharge rate of 8.40 W

UsageDevice name
3.2%CPU use
100.0%Audio codec hwC0D0: Conexant
100.0%USB device: EHCI Host Controller
100.0%USB device: usb-device-8087-0024
100.0%USB device: USB2.0-CRW (Generic)
11.8%Display backlight
0.0%Display backlight
0.0%USB device: xHCI Host Controller
0.0 pkts/sNetwork interface: wlan0 (iwlwifi)
0.0 ops/sGPU
0.0%Radio device: iwlwifi
0.0%Radio device: dell-laptop
100.0%PCI Device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2
100.0%PCI Device: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller
100.0%PCI Device: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
100.0%PCI Device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2
100.0%PCI Device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller
100.0%PCI Device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1
100.0%PCI Device: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2230
100.0%PCI Device: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
100.0%PCI Device: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
0.0 pkts/sNetwork interface: eth0 (r8169)
0.0%Radio device: btusb
0.0%PCI Device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller
0.0%Radio device: dell-laptop
0.0%Audio codec hwC0D3: Intel
0.0%USB device: usb-device-8087-07da
0.0%USB device: Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_E4HD (CN00YCD67248726A1H7HA00)
0.0%PCI Device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1
0.0%USB device: usb-device-8087-0024
0.0%USB device: xHCI Host Controller
0.0%USB device: EHCI Host Controller

Process device activity

ProcessDevice
rsyslogd/dev/xconsole
acpid/dev/input/event0
/dev/input/event2
/dev/input/event9
/dev/input/event5
/dev/input/event1
/dev/input/event11
/dev/input/event10
/dev/input/event3
acpi_fakekeyd/dev/uinput
bluetoothd/dev/rfkill
pulseaudio/dev/snd/controlC0
/dev/snd/controlC0
Xorg/dev/input/event3
/dev/input/event5
/dev/input/event10
/dev/input/event1
/dev/input/event7
/dev/input/event0
/dev/input/event6
/dev/input/event11
/dev/vga_arbiter
/dev/dri/card0
upowerd/dev/input/event2
/dev/network_latency
/dev/cpu_dma_latency
gnome-shell/dev/rfkill
/dev/dri/card0
pulseaudio/dev/snd/controlC0
/dev/snd/controlC0

Software Settings in need of Tuning

VM writeback timeoutecho '1500' > '/proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs';
Enable SATA link power management for /dev/sdaecho 'min_power' > '/sys/class/scsi_host/host0/link_power_management_policy';
Wake-on-lan status for device eth0ethtool -s eth0 wol d;

Untunable Software Issues

PCI Device Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 has no runtime power management
PCI Device Intel Corporation HM77 Express Chipset LPC Controller has no runtime power management
PCI Device Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller has no runtime power management

Optimal Tuned Software Settings

Wireless Power Saving for interface wlan0
NMI watchdog should be turned off
Power Aware CPU scheduler
Bluetooth device interface status
Enable Audio codec power management
Autosuspend for USB device EHCI Host Controller [usb1]
Autosuspend for USB device xHCI Host Controller [usb3]
Autosuspend for USB device xHCI Host Controller [usb4]
Autosuspend for unknown USB device 2-1.5 (8087:07da)
Autosuspend for USB device USB2.0-C