Re: Synaptics PS/2 driver and 2.6.0-test11

Michal Jaegermann
2003-12-01T03:25:44Z

On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 06:26:52PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Sunday 30 November 2003 05:39 pm, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 05:28:10PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> >
> > I'm using ACPI both in 2.4.22 and 2.6.0. I'm using battery_applet
> > (gnome applet) for testing battery state.
> >
> > I will try it. Is acpi=off at boot time enough for that?
>
> How often does battery_applet poll the battery?

This particular applet was written by some genius to read a state
from ACPI _every second_. To add insult to injury it rereads a
constant information from ...battery/info on every round instead of
storing it. As you can guess it can sink a substantial amount of
cycles and other resources especially that ACPI in BIOS is also
often on a very heavy side.

> Start with polling the
> battery less often, let's say every 3 minutes

Likely even every 3 seconds will make a difference but maybe not
enough.

Michal