[CentOS] CPU Usage when idle

Warren Young warren at etr-usa.com
Thu Jan 12 02:14:05 UTC 2012


On 1/11/2012 6:42 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
>
> They did a great job with RHEL6 and I'm
> curious what was changed in order to accomplish this.

It's probably the PowerTop work, primarily done to get better battery 
life on laptops by throttling the CPU down when it's idle:

	http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/



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