> On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 07:14:03PM +0100, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
> > I have released version 1.4 of my package with a new kernel module and
> > some enhancements to the i8kmon utility.
>
> hello,
>
> [no patch today :-)]
>
> here is what top gives me :
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> 8102 kwisatz 15 0 2612 2612 1804 S 1.3 0.5 0:01 tclsh
> 1663 kwisatz 10 0 3172 2436 2028 S 0.1 0.4 0:25 gkrellm
>
> It seems that gkrellm (which monitors more than 20 things on my laptop)
> takes only 0.1% of cpu, whereas i8kmon takes 1.3%...
> I have absolutely no idea how to improve that, but I think that should
> be the first thing on the TODO :-)
>
Hi Stephane,
first question, why is your mailer using a charset=unknown-8bit instead
of the standard iso8859-1?
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit
> Content-Disposition: inline
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
This gives an error in my editor elm and forces me to use cut-and-paste:
> [Charset unknown-8bit unsupported, skipping...]
Now back to i8kutils. No patch today because I was debugging exactly this
problem. I discovered that the SMM calls GET_CPU_TEMP and GET_POWER_STATUS
take a very long time compared to the other calls and this slows down the
whole program. Here is what I discovered:
cpu_temp = i8k_get_cpu_temp(); /* 11100 µs */
left_fan = i8k_get_fan_status(I8K_FAN_LEFT); /* 580 µs */
right_fan = i8k_get_fan_status(I8K_FAN_RIGHT); /* 580 µs */
left_speed = i8k_get_fan_speed(I8K_FAN_LEFT); /* 580 µs */
right_speed = i8k_get_fan_speed(I8K_FAN_RIGHT); /* 580 µs */
ac_power = i8k_get_power_status(); /* 14700 µs */
fn_key = i8k_get_fn_status(); /* 750 µs */
Since I can't fix the SMM BIOS I think there is very little I can do,
except avoiding the GET_POWER_STATUS call which uses half of the time.
I will try to get the same information from /proc/apm.
Did you try the latest version (1.4)? Does it work on your I8100?
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