Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 Nov 2003 20:25:21 -0700 | From | Michal Jaegermann <> | Subject | Re: Synaptics PS/2 driver and 2.6.0-test11 |
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On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 06:26:52PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Sunday 30 November 2003 05:39 pm, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 05:28:10PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > I'm using ACPI both in 2.4.22 and 2.6.0. I'm using battery_applet > > (gnome applet) for testing battery state. > > > > I will try it. Is acpi=off at boot time enough for that? > > How often does battery_applet poll the battery?
This particular applet was written by some genius to read a state from ACPI _every second_. To add insult to injury it rereads a constant information from ...battery/info on every round instead of storing it. As you can guess it can sink a substantial amount of cycles and other resources especially that ACPI in BIOS is also often on a very heavy side.
> Start with polling the > battery less often, let's say every 3 minutes
Likely even every 3 seconds will make a difference but maybe not enough.
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