ports/128826: sysutils/hal: hald-addon-mouse-sysmouse runs fstat to poll mice every 2s, eats CPU

[marcus at FreeBSD.org]

Synopsis: sysutils/hal: hald-addon-mouse-sysmouse runs fstat to poll mice every 2s, eats CPU

State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed
State-Changed-By: marcus
State-Changed-When: Sat Nov 15 17:50:57 UTC 2008
State-Changed-Why: 
This is true, and currently, there isn't a better way to do what needs
to be done.  Reimplementing the KVM code from fstat is too complicated for
the simple task required.  I am working on an enhancement to procstat
which will allow this fork/exec problem to go away.  Until then, the
only workaround is to have hald ignore your mouse device.

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