On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 16:05 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > 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? Right, hald was reading /proc/api/battery/BAT0/state something like four times every 5 seconds. Now we read it once every 30 secs like e.g. battstat-applet-2. I wish we didn't have to poll but the kernel or underlying hardware doesn't give us updates too often on the /proc/acpi/event socket... > If so, I agree these shouldn't be polled too often as they can be > hurrendously slow on some systems. It also causes the clock to drift. David
