[Bug 15809] wine should not wake the cpu when idle

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15809

--- Comment #7 from Lei Zhang   2008-11-05 13:38:11 ---
Have you used powertop to look at how many extra wakeups running Wine causes?
Given Wine causes N wakeups - how much extra energy do you use?

Remember, the cpu only account for a percentage of the system's power usage.
Even if it's idle - a) it still uses a small amount of power, it's not "shut
off". b) video cards/ laptop displays / hard drives / etc still draw power.
> From my experiments with powertop, I'd estimate you'll save a couple watts at

most on a laptop if you manage to eliminate all the extra wakeups in Wine,
which is just enough power to idling your laptop a wee bit longer.