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Nailing the Cause of Recent Linux Power Issues

Posted by timothy on from the building-a-better-eyeball dept.

An anonymous reader writes "For the Linux kernel power regressions that were found a few months ago, and hit in Ubuntu 11.04, Phoronix has found the regression that's still present in the Linux 3.0 kernel. The power regression is caused by a change in ASPM, the Active-State Power Management, for PCI Express support."

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  1. Carpentry and computer power failures by mpoulton · · Score: 3, Funny

    Interesting headline. I was trying to figure out how old-school manual construction work would be responsible for tricky power supply problems on Linux machines only.

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    1. Re:Carpentry and computer power failures by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 5, Funny

      The headline demonstrates a skill that the Linux community seems to lack: the modern corporate marketing mindset. What the Linux community should have done is used this extra power consumption to their advantage: Linux, now more powerful than ever!*



      * more powerful based on the amount of energy used to perform the same tasks