Thread: Dismal Diablo Battery Life - N800
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2008-07-11 , 21:47
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Originally Posted by wartstew View Post
2) From an X-term shell, run "top" and observe the CPU% of the top few processes
("q" quits "top" other commands can be found on the internet, but note that
this is the stripped down "busybox" version of "top")
This will catch processes that are running continuously and eating up CPU. It will not catch processes that come in periodically, eat up lots of CPU and go away. Whenever I have run top, I see CPU utilization around 3%-4% and no process seems to be hogging CPU, yet my battery dies in 3 days. How would one catch a transient periodic process?
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