Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

[Nate Lawson]

Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
>>>>>>On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:40:36 -0500
>>>>>>Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin at pldrouin.net> said:
> 
> 
> pldrouin> Yep, smart battery is definately the problem. The performance of my 
> pldrouin> laptop is back to normal when I remove the xfce4-battery-plugin. 
> pldrouin> acpiconf -i loop reproduces the problem for me too. So it looks like 
> pldrouin> there is something wrong in smart battery.
> 
> The cmbat has similar issue on some laptops.  So, acpi_cmbat.c uses
> cache for retrieval to reduce its influence, and its expiration
> time is set by hw.acpi.battery.info_expire.
> However, acpi_smbat.c doesn't use cache.  So, I made a patch.  Since I
> don't have a laptop which has smbat, I cannot test it by myself.
> Please test it and let me know the result.

The patch looks good to me, you should commit please.


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Nate