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On søn, 2003-11-30 at 20:25 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > 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. > This has been improved in CVS and will be in the next release out shortly. The fixes have helped resolve a load of issues wrt CPU usage and jerkyness when using this applet and ACPI. > > 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. > There's a test tarball at http://www.gnome.org/~kmaraas/gnome-applets- 2.4.2-test.tar.gz if you want to try out the current stuff. Cheers Kjartan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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