brian m. carlson schrieb: > Package: hal > Version: 0.5.10-4 > Severity: normal > > According to powertop, hal polls the CD drive very often[0], which > causes about 35 wakeups per second. Polling the drive no more than once > a second or using an asynchronous notification method (if such a method > exists) would be much preferable. > > Disabling the polling of the CD drive disables these wakeups, but I'd > prefer not to have to do that. > > Note that I am using a PATA cdrom with libata. > > [0] I suspect it is 10 times a second, because that's the number of > libata wakeups I see, but I haven't actually checked.
Hal polls the CD drive every 2 seconds afaik. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
