>starts to sound like something is >turning off the clock during a >somewhat deeper C-state...
Sure may be - powertop is behind all this - if there wasn't long lasting deep c-state we wouldn't have this problem :)
Actually I run powertop and disable things until the machine goes into around 5-6 wakeups per second. So what you said is quite likely.
Thanks for powertop.
Parag
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile