Rodd Clarkson <rodd <at> clarkson.id.au> writes: > Watching my CPU use, I get a spike every 5 seconds (a cheap one thousand > and one, two thousand and two quess). > This is really quite annoying. It's essentially a pause in your UI > every 5 seconds or so, including music that's playing and the likes. Oops. The new acpi check code polls every 5 seconds to support laptops that don't give ACPI events. I'm not sure why the poll would cause such a massive chunk of CPU. David, perhaps we can make this configurable? > Is anyone else seeing this (and hopefully addressing it)? And does > someone have a stop gap for it until it's resolved? I see a small spike, but with no interruption to music playing etc. Richard Hughes.
