From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas List Subject: Re: performance problems? Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:39:05 +0100 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <3DDA6929.1050802@rwth-aachen.de> References: <1037721583.1432.12.camel@sirius.strandboge.cxm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org James D Strandboge wrote: >You want to poll /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state or whatever is correct >for your battery. Polling info requires interrupts with the BIOS I >think, and state is there for a quick poll. At least on my machine this >is the case. > Ah - OK, I am polling info and state at the moment. Let's see what happens if I skip info. Thomas ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html