hald causing stutters

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 11:22, Frederick Alexander Thomssen wrote:
> On Thursday 10 March 2005 12:03, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > Rodd Clarkson <rodd <at> clarkson.id.au> writes:
> > > Watching my CPU use, I get a spike every 5 seconds (a cheap one thousand
> > > and one, two thousand and two quess).
> > > This is really quite annoying.  It's essentially a pause in your UI
> > > every 5 seconds or so, including music that's playing and the likes.
> >
> > Oops. The new acpi check code polls every 5 seconds to support laptops that
> > don't give ACPI events. I'm not sure why the poll would cause such a
> > massive chunk of CPU. David, perhaps we can make this configurable?
> >
> > > Is anyone else seeing this (and hopefully addressing it)?  And does
> > > someone have a stop gap for it until it's resolved?
> >
> > I see a small spike, but with no interruption to music playing etc.
> 
> On my laptop (centrino 1,7 with 512 mb ram) the music interrupts. Even typing 
> is hard because it misses some letters...
> 
> freddy
> 
> >
> > Richard Hughes.

Davidz fixed this and it should be going into rawhide soon.

Test packages are here or you can wait until rawhide is update:

http://people.redhat.com/davidz/hal-0.5pre/

hal-0.5.0.cvs20050310-1

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