F17: power consumption on wired ethernet port

[fred smith]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:18:29AM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 11 September 2012 09:12, Roberto Ragusa <mail at robertoragusa.it> wrote:
> >   16.7 W      0.0 pkts/s                Device         nic:virbr0
> 
> 16 Watts seems like an order of magnitude too much, at least.

I can't disagree! Even on my eeepc, which provides good battery life
(can you say 8-10 hours?) the reported power (ranging from 5.x to 7.x
watts) seems awwwwfully high.


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