[NTLUG:Discuss] SuSE 9.2 Updates -- LOOKOUT!

[Stephen Davidson]

Kevin Brannen wrote:

>
> Yeh, you don't really have to have ACPI.  You don't need powersaved 
> either, feel free to kill that process.  I just found out that gkrellm 
> is for handling themes under gnome; kill that too.  It would be really 
> interesting to know if one of those was the hog.
>
> Too bad you've already reinstalled the system.  But I understand that 
> real work is far more important than looking at interesting system 
> configurations. :-)  Afterall, one of them pays the bills...
>
> Kevin
>
Hi Guys.

More info from misbehaving system.  I wound up having to run some 
updates, but did not update everything.  Did update powersaved, some KDE 
stuff that related to power management, and gkrellm.

And that and with a little bit of luck allowed me to chase down where 
the problem is.  With that update, the 5 sec spike was back.  But it was 
only to %50 total, and no system lock up.  Increase of time for task 
processing by about %30.  Not great, but something I can live with, and 
definately better than the near stalls.  I had not applied the Kernel 
updates yet, so I think there may be an additional problem in the kernel 
to drive the spike to 100%.
Stopping powersaved does not stop a KDE powermonitoring service.  Unload 
the module "battery", and the spike goes away.

Problem: This machine is a laptop.  And I frequently need to run it off 
of batteries (to the point where I have a spare battery).  I _need_ some 
kind of battery monitoring service.  Anyways, I am planning on being at 
the Linux Install Project tommorrow morning, if anyone is interested in 
having a look.

Regards,
Steve

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