On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 01:00:31PM -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > Hello: > > I installed fc4t1 and noticed that totem's video stutters quite a bit. > Sometimes the keyboard input in gnome-terminal feels lagging, too. > It turned out that hald was causing it. Running strace on it showed > nothing more than periodic access of ACPI files in /proc. My hypothesis > is that these accesses cause AML interpreter to work. > > I have two questions. Is this something new or interesting (e.g. do you want > a bug)? And, can something be done about it (can it be made to poll once a > minute or so)? Which files is it polling ? I'm betting the battery files? If so, I agree these shouldn't be polled too often as they can be hurrendously slow on some systems. Dave
