battery app using much cpu
Alan
alan at clueserver.org
Fri Oct 10 21:06:05 UTC 2003
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 20:56, Shawn Houston wrote:
> I installed Fedora Core, Severn, on my Averatec 3150HS laptop. I got
> pretty much everything but the sleep function working.
>
> I added the battery applet to my Gnome task bar, and under kernel
> 2.4.22-1.2062.nptl top show 8.8% cpu used by this app. A lot, but
> bearable. Under kernel 2.4.22-1.2087.nptl this jumps to 49%! I am
> guessing that some bad programming in the battery app is to blame, the
> new kernel just makes it show better.
>
> Anyone else see this?
Yes. It was caused on my machine by having a laptop that did not like
acpi. Try using apm instead and see what happens.
Yes, it is a bad solution, but it worked for me...
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