On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 11:22, Frederick Alexander Thomssen wrote: > 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. Davidz fixed this and it should be going into rawhide soon. Test packages are here or you can wait until rawhide is update: http://people.redhat.com/davidz/hal-0.5pre/ hal-0.5.0.cvs20050310-1 -- J5
