rolan900d | # 1 | 2010-05-23, 13:40 | Report

Hi gang,

nothing running the background but Battery Graph is showing loss of energy on the CPU...
There are bars going up and down?!

How can I determine what is making my battery run dry?

ToJa92 | # 2 | 2010-05-23, 13:44 | Report

Try downloading the memcpu applet instead and check if there actually is something using the CPU. Perhaps you have a daemon running? Or maybe the music indexer daemon have stucked and is using a lot of the CPU(IIRC that can happen)?

EDIT: Or, run the command 'top' in terminal, there you can see what uses the CPU.

rolan900d | # 3 | 2010-05-23, 13:50 | Report

Will give that a go....
Thanks....

Never noticed it before.
I usally set the cell off-line during the night but still something is running...

Edit:

Provides no new info...
I also have the load applet and that one also shows 3 boxes....
When I check Conky there is 1 process running; being Conky

I also used Htop but don't know what process to stop??

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Last edited by rolan900d; 2010-05-23 at 13:54.

SpeedEvil | # 4 | 2010-05-23, 23:00 | Report

Is one process shown consistently using CPU - other than X and htop?
Also - what battery life are you getting?

namorip | # 5 | 2010-05-23, 23:41 | Report

I second rolan900d

Is there a way to log various daemons/apps/widgets/etc CPU usage?
My N900 suffers from serious battery drain, I can't figure out why.

Should X use 8-12% CPU for a few minutes with only xterm and htop open, no auto-updated widgets, nothing like that comes to mind..?
Very uncanny, this drain.

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Last edited by namorip; 2010-05-24 at 20:03.