From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261188AbVG0W2u (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:28:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261199AbVG0WWU (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:22:20 -0400 Received: from smtprelay04.ispgateway.de ([80.67.18.16]:22732 "EHLO smtprelay04.ispgateway.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261201AbVG0WUC (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:20:02 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:22:44 +0200 From: Florian Engelhardt To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: system freezes for 0.2 to 0.5 seconds when reading /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature Message-ID: <20050728002244.5163ac4a@localhost> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13cvs2 (GTK+ 2.6.7; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, first of all, sorry for the long headline. second: Every time, i try to do the following: cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature the whole system looks up for a short period of time (something about 0.5s). realy everything, video and audio encoding, mouse and keyboard input, firefox playing a flash animation, ... I am also getting the following: Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed. maybe these two things are belonging to each other. I am using a 2.6.12-rc3-mm1 kernel on a amd64 with a nvidia nforce4 mainboard. kind regards flo -- "I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous" David Bradley, who invented the (in)famous ctrl-alt-del key combination