battery app using much cpu

[Warren Togami]

Alan wrote:
> 
> Yes.  It was caused on my machine by having a laptop that did not like
> acpi.  Try using apm instead and see what happens.
> 
> Yes, it is a bad solution, but it worked for me...
> 
> 

Alan,

I've seen this happen on two Athlon laptops, one with VIA KT133 chipset, 
the other with an ATI Radeon chipset.  Both laptops don't work very well 
with APM, while ACPI enables a large amount of power savings and there 
are zero problems unless you look at the /proc/acpi battery states.  It 
seems to cause the entire machine to freeze for a fraction of a second, 
last tested with 2.6.0-test6.

Warren