battery app using much cpu

[Shawn Houston]

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?

-Shawn