hald causing stutters

[Richard Hughes]

Rodd Clarkson <rodd <at> clarkson.id.au> writes:
> Watching my CPU use, I get a spike every 5 seconds (a cheap one thousand
> and one, two thousand and two quess).
> This is really quite annoying.  It's essentially a pause in your UI
> every 5 seconds or so, including music that's playing and the likes.

Oops. The new acpi check code polls every 5 seconds to support laptops that
don't give ACPI events. I'm not sure why the poll would cause such a massive
chunk of CPU. David, perhaps we can make this configurable?
 
> Is anyone else seeing this (and hopefully addressing it)?  And does
> someone have a stop gap for it until it's resolved?

I see a small spike, but with no interruption to music playing etc. 

Richard Hughes.