battery app using much cpu

[Alan]

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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