Re: 2.6.18-rc5 -rc5-mm1: kacpid continuously generating 4% CPU load on HPC nx6325 w/ SUSE 10.1

Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-09-05T11:09:56Z

On Tuesday, 5 September 2006 08:47, Yu Luming wrote:
> On Sunday 03 September 2006 17:23, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having a strange issue with the 2.6.18-rc5 and -rc5-mm1 kernels and
> > SUSE 10.1 on HPC nx6325 that kacpid is generating 4% of CPU load (on one
> > core) in a continuous manner.
> Please try to unload thermal module.

albercik:~ # rmmod thermal

[hanging? On another console:]
albercik:~ # ps ax
...
4864 pts/0 D+ 0:00 rmmod thermal
...

> > It sometimes helps if powersaved is restarted, but only for a short time.
> > However, after restarting powersaved the kacpid-generated load sometimes
> > jumps to 100% (on one core) and stays on this level.
> >
> > At the same time the battery is never reported to be 100% full (it stops
> > at ~98% full and loading) and when I tried to unload the battery module,
> > rmmod ended up in the D state.
> what do you mean by "in the D state"?

TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE (like above).

Greetings,