hald hitting ACPI files in fc4t1
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Fri Apr 1 21:05:36 UTC 2005
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?
If so, I agree these shouldn't be polled too often as they can be
hurrendously slow on some systems.
Dave
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