On Thursday 10 March 2005 12:03, Richard Hughes wrote: > 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. On my laptop (centrino 1,7 with 512 mb ram) the music interrupts. Even typing is hard because it misses some letters... freddy > > Richard Hughes. -- Frederick Alexander Thomssen
