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Seeing as how my emacs question was so successful, I decided to try again. Why does acpid take up so many of my computrons? Look at this line from top: 5958 root 25 0 1348 80 1176 R 97.6 0.0 85:17.23 acpid This is the top item, it is using 97.6% of the CPU, which seems a lot, but the priority is 25, which, if I understand Linux, is a very low priority. It is being an idle task? Why? And what happens when I get one of those CPU throttling daemons running on my notebook to save battery? Will this trick the daemon into thinking that the CPU really is needed and keep the CPU at full speed? I recently "emerged" acpid on my Gentoo notebook because I got software suspend working and want to power switch to initiate the suspend. Software suspend is cool. It isn't as fast as the BIOS RAM suspend I used on my old Vaio,l but it also doesn't use battery power to sleep. (If I get a second battery I can swap batteries without having to hack some kind of keeper battery kludge.) I have only been playing with swsusp since yesterday evening but it looks pretty stable on the newest 2.6.7-gentoo-r3 kernel. The ipw2100 0.53 wireless module doesn't seem to like it, but a rmmod before suspending does seem to work. Oh, and I don't have the power switch working yet to suspend. On a related topic, does anyone out there have a favorite CPU speed daemon? (Does it work with acpid?) Thanks, -kb
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