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SolarBear

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Registered: 2005-11-06

Posts: 16

Sluggish system : kacpid acting off

Hi there, since this evening Arch has been acting strange. A few minutes after booting up, before which everything is going nice and well, my PC gets very sluggish : programs take a long time to load, Banshee has trouble keeping up with the music it's playing, heck even switching to a GNOME console produces lag. Now, a look at top tells me this :

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
   42 root      11  -5     0    0    0 R   85  0.0  14:36.53 kacpid

85% for a program I know nothing about A quick Google search shows that it might be a kernel problem, but most of what I've read were posts in mailing lists dating from 2004, regarding a kernel bug. Which doesn't help me much.

So :
1) What IS kacpid ?
2) How the hell do I tell it to get the heck away from my system ? It's not something that gets started in my rc.conf .

somairotevoli

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Registered: 2006-05-23

Posts: 335

Re: Sluggish system : kacpid acting off

Do you have acpi installed? Are the correct modules loaded?

Last edited by somairotevoli (2007-04-16 06:30:55)

Driadan

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From: Madrid (Spain)

Registered: 2006-03-24

Posts: 36

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Re: Sluggish system : kacpid acting off

It may have something to do with the latest news regarding acpi changes. Have you upgraded recently? You probably just need to load the correct modules.

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SolarBear

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Registered: 2005-11-06

Posts: 16

Re: Sluggish system : kacpid acting off

You were both right : loading whatever modules seemed to fit my kernel solved the problem.

What CAUSED it, however, is clear now : it was Cedega. Since I've updated to version 6.0, running it for a minute or 2 (only the GUI) would slow the system down.