lm_battery.sh executes for too long

[l29ah]

ACPI produces battery events every 2s or so, while /etc/acpi/actions/lm_battery.sh can execute for about ten seconds, causing the other ACPI events to pile up and causing huge delays for things like udev permission setup for USB devices. Occurred to me on Thinkpad X201, X230 and X210 on Gentoo.

[rickysarraf]

This seriously is a problem with your machine. The events shouldn't generate that often.

As for laptop-mode-tools, yes, your run time could be a couple of seconds. On reasonable hardware, I have profiled it to the average of 5 seconds. But with low end hardware with slow disk drives, this could spike.

But, laptop-mode-tools does have locking in place which lets it honor only 1 additional event in its queue during its runtime. All other events are ignored/dropped. But as is your case (or 2 second events), it would still be like a stream of events.

This is still a problem with your hardware. A sane machine does not generate events that often. Can you share what class of events are generated ?

[rickysarraf]

Your best option is to purge acpi and rely on udev instead.

[l29ah]

battery PNP0C0A:03 00000080 00000001

[l29ah]

Now i'm on X210, i'm not really sure about the others as i can't test them now with enabled event logging.