Comment 4 for bug 113440

Hi Eero,

 As you can see, this bug is marked Fix Released. Is this problem still
occurring on Hardy Alpha 2?

On Dec 22, 2007 6:40 AM, Eero Tamminen <email address hidden> wrote:

> > I had been monitoring cpu usage and every 1 sec, my cpu usage % would
> spike to 70-80%, I ran a "top" and located the spike.... Xfce-4 battery
> -p. The battery monitor is just really sucking alot of cpu usage for
> such a small app.
>
> CPU usage can disturb other applications, but when it comes to what kind
> of behavior drains battery most (once kernel uses dynticks and can make
> HW to sleep when it's not used), it's how often something wakes and how
> long.
>
> For example SDL programs might look completely idle when they are not
> doing anything (use 0% CPU according to top), but in reality they are
> are polling the system (very quickly) several times a second.
>
> In this case I think the main problem is that the thing wakes up once a
> sec. Battery state doesn't change that fast and plugging in a charger
> could/should send an event about it...
>
> --
> Xfce-4 battery monitor using too much cpu
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/113440
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>

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