The power consumed by a processor in a multicore in idle mode in linux is provided in the following file
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpuidle/state0/power
The output is:
4294967295
In linux documentation, it is given that the unit of power consumption in milli watt. That implies the above power = 4294 Kilo watt.
Can some one help me to understand how this can be so huge?