Please try a patch from #5534 bug report, it seems you have the same deadlock as all other HP users. Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Tuesday, 5 September 2006 08:47, Yu Luming wrote: >> On Sunday 03 September 2006 17:23, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm having a strange issue with the 2.6.18-rc5 and -rc5-mm1 kernels and >>> SUSE 10.1 on HPC nx6325 that kacpid is generating 4% of CPU load (on one >>> core) in a continuous manner. >> Please try to unload thermal module. > > albercik:~ # rmmod thermal > > [hanging? On another console:] > albercik:~ # ps ax > ... > 4864 pts/0 D+ 0:00 rmmod thermal > ... > >>> It sometimes helps if powersaved is restarted, but only for a short time. >>> However, after restarting powersaved the kacpid-generated load sometimes >>> jumps to 100% (on one core) and stays on this level. >>> >>> At the same time the battery is never reported to be 100% full (it stops >>> at ~98% full and loading) and when I tried to unload the battery module, >>> rmmod ended up in the D state. >> what do you mean by "in the D state"? > > TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE (like above). > > Greetings, > Rafael > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html