F17: power consumption on wired ethernet port

[Roberto Ragusa]

On 09/09/2012 03:21 AM, fred smith wrote:

> On my eeepc 901, powertop reports that network interface p33p1 consumes
> in the range of 5.6 to 7.7 watts, depending on factors that aren't
> obvious to me.

This is on my F16:

  16.7 W      0.0 pkts/s                Device         nic:virbr0

so I think powertop is seriously wrong at network interface consumption.


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