[laptop-discuss] battstat and emifreq applets - cpu running high

[Casper.Dik at Sun.COM]

>hi all,
>
>was surprise to see this in prstat:
>
>1086 philip     51M   13M sleep   59    0   0:01:40 10.2% battstat-applet/1
>  955 philip     51M   13M sleep   59    0   0:00:53 1.3% emifreq-applet/1
>
>and hardly gets better. is it normal for all cpu?


The applets themselves are fairly broken in that they poll far too often;
but it also depends on the expense of executing the ACPI battery code
which depends on the specific piece of hardware which you have.

Casper