battery app using much cpu

[Justin Georgeson]

Alan wrote:
> 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...
> 
> 

Does the battery applet still cause the system clock to run slow like it 
did in RH 8/9?