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sud_crow

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Registered: 2003-06-30

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hald-addon-input consuming 100% cpu

Hi everyone,

Before reporting this as a bug in the tracker, I thought i should ask if someone else is having this issue.

It began not long ago... i think around 1 or 2 weeks.

Here is my top output:

top - 19:18:11 up 55 min,  1 user,  load average: 2.37, 0.82, 0.41
Tasks: 113 total,   7 running, 106 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu0  : 41.7%us, 29.6%sy,  0.0%ni,  4.3%id, 23.8%wa,  0.4%hi,  0.3%si,  0.0%st
Cpu1  : 45.8%us, 37.8%sy,  0.0%ni,  8.6%id,  6.9%wa,  0.6%hi,  0.3%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   2058092k total,  1524516k used,   533576k free,    59600k buffers
Swap:   530136k total,        0k used,   530136k free,  1022900k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 4301 root      20   0 18836 1168  992 R   98  0.1   2:01.18 hald-addon-inpu

Its happens every time i reboot. Found a similar issue in Ubuntu:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/203679

And restarting hal daemon as stated in a comment does the trick.
But sometimes starts skyrocketing again, randomly.

Here is the output for ps aux

root      5692  0.0  0.0  18836  1152 ?        S    19:27   0:00 hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event9 /dev/input/event2 /dev/input/event1 /dev/input/event4 /dev/input/event5 /dev/input/event6

This was after a hal restart, so the CPU consumption fell to almost nothing.

Any tips are welcome.

ps. /edit.
Arch system up to date. x86_64 version.
Its a Dell XPS M1530 laptop.
(So i thas a touchpad and fingerprint reader, both working --thats probably why there are so many input devices--)

Last edited by sud_crow (2008-04-18 22:33:00)

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Leonardo Andrés Gallego
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JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

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Re: hald-addon-input consuming 100% cpu

According to the ubuntu report, this patch should fix it:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13565547/ … nval.patch

I'll have a look soon, as I still have to update i686 packages for hal too.

sud_crow

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From: Argentina

Registered: 2003-06-30

Posts: 546

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Re: hald-addon-input consuming 100% cpu

Thanks JGC.

Do you need this to be reported through the bug tracker?

Regards

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Leonardo Andrés Gallego
www.archlinux-es.org || Comunidad Hispana de Arch Linux

JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: hald-addon-input consuming 100% cpu

I already applied this patch to the i686 build of hal, the x86_64 version will follow tomorrow when I'm trimming down the difflist.