battery monitor with KDE 64 bit

[martinko]

Ian Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, mato wrote:
>  > Ian Smith wrote:
>  > > FWIW, I've also long used sysutils/ascpu as a 60sec visual load monitor,
>  > > matching asapm's 'look', res. size and low cpu usage.  At ~7days uptime:
>  > >
>  > >  3680 smithi       8    0  2344K   448K nanslp  44:06  0.00%  0.00% asapm
>  > >  3681 smithi       8    0  2564K   448K nanslp  41:53  0.00%  0.00% ascpu
>  > >  3514 root        96    0  1280K   264K select  36:32  0.00%  0.00% moused
>  > >
>  > >   
>  > 
>  > There's something wrong with asapm or with my system -- I configured 
>  > asapm for 5 seconds updating (as opposed to default 1s) and after 3 
>  > hours of uptime it already consumed 30 CPU-seconds. (!)
> 
> Yeah Martin, that seems a lot; mine's using ~6 seconds per day.  Perhaps
> to do with running on amd64 rather than i386, though I've no idea why,
> unless it's much busier with ACPI than with APM.
> 
> Might be worth trying with the explicit -acpi switch, in case it tries
> using the apm-over-acpi calls on your system?  Pure speculation ..
> 
> Are you running any commands on any conditions from the resource file?
> I don't use ~/.asapmrc at all, just run 'asapm -lower forestgreen'.
> 

Funny..  when I run it with -acpi I get the following:

$ asapm -withdrawn -u 5 -acpi
asapm: Neither ACPI nor APM are available!

and it quits.

When run w/o -acpi it works OK.

Hm..

M.

PS: I do use ~/.asapmrc but I don't think that is the culprit as asapm 
consumes CPU even when there are no actions triggered (always running on 
AC power).