From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Galeon/1.3.8 Description of problem: The battstat sucks up too much CPU. There is a patch that works: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dmoore/battstat/ The explanation there is better than I can give without stealing his text... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): severn version and rawhide version How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run battstat on an inspiron 8500 from dell 2. type top 3. look Actual Results: 12% CPU or more being burned Expected Results: 0% CPU being burned Additional info: I should have reported this a long time ago...
Surely this has been reported to bugzilla.gnome.org? If not it really needs to be, I'm not sure why the patches at that URL are being maintained separately.
Yes, it's been reported upstream here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88553 However, I think the gnome-applets maintainers might need a nudge to get this patch merged. Any help with that would be appreciated. I know debian also has a bug filed on this problem.
Patched versions of 2.4.1 applets are at: http://www.translingual.com:8080/~jdy/RPMS/ sorry for the lame index.html file
It appears that it was fixed up-stream as of 2003-10-22. Would be really nice if that could be released as an update to fedora sometime soon.
This patch is great but the ac/battery status icon does not update most of the time when unplugging and plugging in the ac... is there a way to have the battery polled as is in the patch but maybe have the ac polled more frequently?
If anyone is still have problems with the patched version of battstat, please try the patch here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129167 It fixes an important bug in my earlier patch that may cause the AC icon to not update properly, especially observed with Fedora users.
So, this should all be fixed in Fedora Core 2, right?
right. seems fixed to me so far.