Re: [e-users] Battery Monitor module source of excessively high CPU usage trouble

2008-02-23 Thread The Rasterman
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:27:23 -0600 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: it could be old e config and the battery module is polling really fast: 1. rm -rf ~/.e 2. start e and see. other than that e is querying your battery for information likely via /proc/acpi/... or possibly another one of

[e-users] Battery Monitor module source of excessively high CPU usage trouble

2008-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
I installed E DR17 yesterday (with the help of Prof K's RPMS and advice) and was troubled that it was using 40-80% of the system CPU, even if the PC was sitting idle. I started searching posts in this list and saw Raster's blog, which (2 years ago) showed that E with no modules was very fast and

Re: [e-users] Battery Monitor module source of excessively high CPU usage trouble

2008-02-21 Thread Jesse Luehrs
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:27:23 -0600 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed E DR17 yesterday (with the help of Prof K's RPMS and advice) and was troubled that it was using 40-80% of the system CPU, even if the PC was sitting idle. I started searching posts in this list and saw

Re: [e-users] Battery Monitor module source of excessively high CPU usage trouble

2008-02-21 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:27:23PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: I did remove the second battery and try the battery module again, but it still showed high CPU usage. So I don't know for sure what to conclude. Perhaps the whole framework of the motherboard chassis has it confused? I have a