Package: libchipcard-tools Version: 4.1.3-2 Followup-For: Bug #470629
from ps -e -f : chipcard 4608 4607 1 Sep01 ? 04:09:21 /usr/sbin/chipcardd4 --pidfile /var/run/chipcard/chipcardd4.pid --exit-on-error This is on a 2.8GHz P4 system. It's a fair bit of CPU time for a program that isn't actually helping me at all, since I have no chip cards. This seems to be a standard program on Debian, and Debian has tens of millions of users, so we're talking about millions of CPU-hours per day being wasted here! If I do a back-of-the envelope calculation, my P4 is using something like 50 watts, and 3% goes to chipcardd4, so it's responsible for about 2 watts of power use. Let's drop that to 1/2 watt, on more modern systems. Even so, we're talking about tens of megawatts wasted -- enough electricity to power maybe 10,000 houses? About 1% of a large nuclear reactor. At my electricity prices (about 6p per kilowatt-hour), this is wasting, um, over 20,000 pounds ($40,000) per day of someone's money. Wow! Actually, I think the economic and ecological implications of this bug raise it from the "minor" category. -- Package-specific info: Available chipcard readers (output of "chipcard-tool list"): -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing-proposed-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages libchipcard-tools depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libchipcard-data 4.1.3-2 configuration files for libchipcar ii libchipcardc2 4.1.3-2 library for accessing smartcards ii libchipcardd0 4.1.3-2 library for accessing smartcards ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-9 GCC support library ii libgwenhywfar47 3.3.5-1 OS abstraction layer ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libsysfs2 2.1.0-4 interface library to sysfs libchipcard-tools recommends no packages. libchipcard-tools suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
