From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: first shoot for smartbattery Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 19:14:41 +0100 Message-ID: <20050105181441.GA1157@openzaurus.ucw.cz> References: <20050101082605.GA24896@phys.ethz.ch> <20050103143902.GQ19199@poupinou.org> <41D97AF3.7000409@arrakis.dhis.org> <41D98251.9020002@arrakis.dhis.org> <20050103180219.GX19199@poupinou.org> <41D9A1F5.1060508@arrakis.dhis.org> <20050104100844.GA19199@poupinou.org> <41DAA92C.4080605@tiscali.be> <47e0449d05010406454e59b16a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47e0449d05010406454e59b16a-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Johannes Kuhlmann Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Hia > I'm trying this out on an Acer Travelmate 4001LCi. With the version of > today, I get nice results for the battery, though I experienced the > same you did. But as fas as I could see this behaviour only takes > place, if I run smartbattery repeatedly with a very short delay. If I > only run it from time to time, it seems to be decreasing normally. I'd say increases are ok. Imagine period of high cpu load (machine takes 50W and thinks "if it goes like that, I can only last 15 minutes"), then cpu goes idle (25W, "okay, I can survive 30 minutes with load like this"). At this point, available time *should* go up. -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt