hald causing stutters

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 11:03:26AM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> 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?

It traps into the SMM BIOS and what happens then is BIOS dependant. You'll
probably find it also makes your clock go out over time as well.

Alan