On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 15:19 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Right now, installing hal will result in hald-addon-storage polling > removable devices from boot - even if nothing's paying attention. This > is a surprisingly large power consumption hit on modern systems. udisks > starts the polling on-demand, which is preferable, but some legacy > applications still require hal. > > I've just split hald-addon-storage out into its own package in rawhide. > If you need the hald-addon-storage functionality (ie, you rely on hal > for media change events) then please add an explicit depends on > hal-storage-addon. Thanks! I reported elsewhere to some virt. folks that it is also a CPU hog (in terms of waking up guests every two seconds to poll a virtual CD device that may almost never have "media"). They are going to look at fixing the qemu emulation so that virtualized drives can report media status without being polled. But this now yields two interim solutions, including either explicitly telling hal not to poll (I typically do this on all new installs under virt) or removing this package in the future. Jon. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
