Description of problem: Every few nano seconds, hald-addon-storage wakes up, opens my CDROM and causes in excess of 20% CPU. top - 00:44:24 up 8:36, 1 user, load average: 0.41, 0.30, 0.27 PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2430 root 16 0 1924 660 580 S 20 0.0 42:55.74 hald-addon-stor Strace says it is repeatedly opening /dev/hdc - CDROM. Why in god's name does it have to poll a CDROM so fast and why would it need 20% of CPU for that? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): hal-0.5.8.1-6.fc6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Just run a FC6 system with CDROM drive and watch top output 2. 3. Actual results: hald-addon-storage sucks CPU like crazy Expected results: Should not wake up so often and should not cause this much CPU utilization. Additional info: It sucks when you find out your laptop's fans are blowing to keep hald-addon-storage running and polling the non existend CD in the CDROM drive and causing increased power consumption.
Sorry my trackpad horizontal scrolling made me hit submit twice. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 221691 ***