Some program is forgetting it’s purpose…

February 18, 2008 on 7:00 pm | In Uncategorized | By BioHazard | 2 Comments

I was checking around my computer for large files I could delete and I ran across /var/log/messages. Guess how big it was…

-rw------- 1 root root 2.8G Feb 18 14:27 messages

Guess what’s in it…

Feb 18 10:12:13 ferret acpid: received event "processor CPU0 00000080 00000000"
Feb 18 10:12:13 ferret acpid: notifying client 2745[0:0]
Feb 18 10:12:13 ferret acpid: notifying client 2939[104:1004]
Feb 18 10:12:13 ferret acpid: notifying client 4035[0:0]
Feb 18 10:12:13 ferret acpid: completed event "processor CPU0 00000080 00000000"

Repeat that for 2.8 gigabytes. over 18 days.

Isin’t ACPI supposed to help keep power consumption down? Why is it writing to the disk 95 times a second? Does it have to notify me every time the CPU speed changes due to frequency scaling?

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  1. Oh dear, that’s not good at all. Too much verbosity! It doesn’t even fall under “Last line repeated x times”

    Comment by QBasicer — February 18, 2008 #

  2. Wow. That’s insane. Maybe you should get a mac. ;-)

    Comment by Shadow — February 22, 2008 #

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