RE: kacpid problems

Yu, Luming
2004-11-16T03:29:41Z

The big slowdown you saw shouldn't be caused by that code change, which
just means issuing poll at 5s frequency. I think it's self-effacing enough. :-)

Thanks
Luming

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi [mailto:gcs-gKC9iF2I70U@public.gmane.org]
>Sent: 2004年11月16日 8:36
>To: Yu, Luming
>Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
>Subject: Re: [ACPI] kacpid problems
>
>* Yu, Luming <luming.yu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> [2004-11-09 16:23:13 +0800]:
>
>> I suspect we need a sane check against sleep_time.
>> Please testing the following debug patch.
> Tried. The bug still exists, but now kacpid does not stuck in a D
>state and I can power off the machine, it does not fail with
>acpi_power_off called as a last message.
>
>> Also, please sent the output of the activity in /proc/acpi/event .
> I need to stop acpid, but doing a cat after it, I do not see any
>output. How am I supposed to get an output?
>
>>
>> + sleep_time = 5000; /* 5 seconds */
>> +
>> /*
> It just slows down the polling on /proc/acpi/event , right? It helps,
>as see above, but if I run a CPU intense application, mozilla loading a
>big page, or trying to watch a movie, then I see a big slowdown.
>
>Hope this helps,
>Laszlo
>
>

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