hald hitting ACPI files in fc4t1

[David Zeuthen]

On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 13:00 -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)?

I fixed this to poll every 30 seconds shortly after fc4t1 was released
and it solved similar problems that other people were seeing. This fix
is in the latest hal package in Rawhide.

Cheers,
David