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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. Troll? by drinkypoo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Looks like I picked up a mod troll again, this is the second undeserved trollmod in a short period. Does apk have an account with modpoints? ;)

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