GNOME battery applet eats CPU

[Jonathan C. Sitte]

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Jurgen Kramer wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I've just installed Fedora FC1 on my laptop. The first
| thing I noticed was that my laptop responded very sluggish.
| After checking with top a found out that the GNOME battery applet
| was eating a lot of CPU. After disabling the applet the systems
| responds as it should.

Mine is not doing that at all:

~ 11:41:19  up  2:16,  3 users,  load average: 0.21, 0.20, 0.18
84 processes: 75 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 7 stopped
CPU states:  cpu    user    nice  system    irq  softirq  iowait    idle
~           total    0.0%    0.0%    0.0%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%    0.0%
Mem:   514056k av,  469780k used,   44276k free,       0k shrd,   38464k
buff
~       238960k active,             186428k inactive
Swap: 1076344k av,     208k used, 1076136k free                  235108k
cached


~  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
~ 4785 root      15   0 49536  19M  7440 S     1.5  3.9   3:36   0 X
~ 4921 jcsitte   17   0  8212 8212  6804 S     1.1  1.5   2:33   0
battstat-appl
~ 4895 jcsitte   16   0  5412 5412  4712 S     0.7  1.0   0:08   0 magicdev
~ 5930 jcsitte   15   0 44256  43M 20640 S     0.3  8.6   0:52   0
mozilla-bin
~ 6122 jcsitte   17   0  1116 1116   888 R     0.1  0.2   0:00   0 top
~    1 root      16   0   420  420   360 S     0.0  0.0   0:04   0 init
~    2 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 keventd
~    3 root      34  19     0    0     0 SWN   0.0  0.0   0:00   0
ksoftirqd/0
~    5 root      25   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 bdflush
~    4 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kswapd
~    6 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kupdated
~    7 root      21   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0
mdrecoveryd
~   11 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kjournald
~   96 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 khubd


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Jonathan C. Sitte <jcsitte at staticnull.org>
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