From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751100AbWDQPQ4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:16:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751098AbWDQPQ4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:16:56 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com ([64.233.162.200]:57573 "EHLO nz-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751100AbWDQPQ4 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:16:56 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=JlkhrTrvlP+fZSAko8tawqIhH176H15kEe6iASH2Y9k4AMeK30/SPJ0u/rmXjKhh3XKf4qAtRC6t8v3oK/t42ySoNeyJXSfVF+kSLb0usL5DM3c10sUJIJX0F+FXVz6uLOF19dbySfZv3rDI/6ZnpFKkxkz6hBhJOZtlfgJ+jaU= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:16:55 -0400 From: "Dmitry Torokhov" Reply-To: dtor_core@ameritech.net To: "Brad Campbell" Subject: Re: 2.6.16.1 psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1 and ACPI Cc: lkml In-Reply-To: <44439FCE.50809@wasp.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <44437793.20908@wasp.net.au> <44439FCE.50809@wasp.net.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 4/17/06, Brad Campbell wrote: > Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On 4/17/06, Brad Campbell wrote: > >> Apr 17 14:12:30 bklaptop kernel: psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1 > >> Apr 17 14:12:30 bklaptop last message repeated 4 times > >> Apr 17 14:12:30 bklaptop kernel: psmouse.c: issuing reconnect request > >> > >> I know it's related to ACPI as if I kill all apps that poll the acpi interface the problem goes > >> away. My issue is that when I do that, I sometimes forget to plug the machine in when it needs it > >> (or suspend it to change the battery) and it winds up dead with no warning. So I *really* need my > >> battery monitoring. > >> > >> I just don't recall having these problems, to this extent with earlier kernels. It's always been > >> there, but I guess since I passed about 2.6.13 or thereabouts it has just gotten worse. 2.6.16.1 is > >> almost unusable for serious work if I have anything monitoring the battery. > >> > > > > I often do you have your apps polling battery? Changing to 1 or 2 > > minutes might help. > > All in all I have three apps that poll.. I've slowed them down a little and it still seems to > co-incide with me typing or using the touchpad (Murphy is a swine like that). One polls once per > minute, one polls every 30 seconds and one polls every 2 seconds!! (that one I can kill without > losing any major functionality) > Would you mind telling me what these applications are? Hopefully they only poll "status" and not "info" file. And 2 seconds is definitely too high. It would be nice if you could reduce "pollers" to just 1 application though. -- Dmitry