>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
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