Bug 26229 – Gnome battery status monitor uses 100% cpu

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Yuri Schimke 2003-08-08 13:09:29 UTC]

if I run the battery status monitor for a long time, my system suddenly becomes
unresponsive, and is pegged at 100% cpu.

even kill -9 doesn't kill the process immediately.  It eventually dies, but I
can't use anything for a while.

Not sure if this is a fix.  But this patch talk about excess cpu usage.
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dmoore/battstat/

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2003-08-10 17:40:34 UTC]

what is your 'emerge info' ?

i dont think the webpage is related directly, because you say it only happens after a while for you. Try the patch i'd say and report back.

[Comment 2 Yuri Schimke 2003-08-11 01:11:22 UTC]

Portage 2.0.48-r7 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.20GHz
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.easynet.nl /mirror/gentoo// http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo// ftp://gentoo.linux.no/pub /gentoo/ http://gentoo.linux.no/"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/confi g /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /opt/tomcat/conf"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
USE="x86 oss 3dnow avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ libwww mad m ikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib  directfb gtkhtml gdbm slang readline aalib nas bonobo svga tcltk java guile rub y X sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk motif opengl gphoto2 ldap cdr acpi cjk curl dga doc dvd fbcon flash gd gtk2 imagemagick imap jikes junit lcms mozsvg pnp slp usb -apm -arts -kde -qt -berkdb"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="ccache sandbox userpriv usersandbox"

[Comment 3 Yuri Schimke 2003-08-11 01:12:17 UTC]

BTW if it doesn't respond to kill -9, does that mean its in the kernel code or something?  I can't understand why kill -9 doesn't work.  It eventually does but it should be fast!

[Comment 4 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2003-09-15 05:30:51 UTC]

are you using ACPI for your battery levels or APM ?

[Comment 5 Yuri Schimke 2003-09-15 05:33:30 UTC]

Using ACPI.

[Comment 6 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2003-09-24 16:16:34 UTC]

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88553

it looks like a valid problem and the patch seems to do the right thing for ACPI. i'm adding this to gnome-applets-2.4.1-r1. please test it to verify it fixes the problem for you. you must have "acpi" in your USE flag for the patch to apply.

[Comment 7 Yuri Schimke 2003-10-03 00:09:37 UTC]

Finally did an upgrade.  So far so good.  I'll let you know and reopen if
it starts failing.  Its only after a while it happens.

Thanks.