since dhcdbd is known to use high frequency polling it wakes up the cpu pretty often from linuxpowertop.org "dhcdbd is a program that connects the DHCP client of the OS to the DBUS gnome program. dhcdbd implements it's own defered event mechanism and uses high frequency polling to handle these events, rather than sleeping until the first planned event happens." so please include the patch from Keith Packard from http://www.linuxpowertop.org/patches/dhcdbd.patch Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install networkmanager 2.enable it by adding it to the runlevel default 3.switch to battery mode & wonder about battery drain ;) Actual Results: battery runtime went down Expected Results: battery runtime shouldn't be affected that much
Gentoo bugzilla is a wrong place to request such things; this needs to go upstream.
As Jakub said, this needs to go upstream... As an aside, when NetworkManager 0.7 comes out, dhcdbd *should* be obsolete, and I will have no more interest in taking care of it...
ok, thanks, so this shouldn't be a problem anymore in the near future =)
