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On Wed, 25 Mar 98 01:23:59 -0600, jeffj@ro.com wrote: >"Paul Khoury" <pkhoury@loop.com> said the following on the auspicious date >of 98-03-24: > >>On Tue, 24 Mar 98 22:10:28 -0600, jeffj@ro.com wrote: > >>>I have a ThinkPad 765D running OS/2 v4, fix pack 5. When I run it on >>>battery power and the battery metter program is running, I sometimes see >>>high CPU usage. When the system is idle, I may see more than 1/3 CPU time >>>in use with the CPU stuck in its slowest speed. When allowed to adjust its >>>speed, I see idle CPU usage of 8 to 10% -- more than twice the normal when >>>plugged in. >>> >>>It just seems to be the battery meter program. Has anyone else seen this? >>> >>Have you tried Warp 6? I don't know if it will give you the same font >>trouble I had (but as shown in my sig, works on this machine fine), but >>it changes the APM applet, and adds 1.2 compatiblity, so that might help. > >I've been hesitant to install fixpack 6 because of the amount of traffic >on news groups regarding problems related to it. I only wish I found out about that, too. It works great on my P75server, but on the ThinkPad in particular, it messes up the fonts. I was fortunate to be able to backout. One thing though - with my 701 (or others that support this), it gave battery life to the hour and minute, like the BIOS (Fn-F2), as well as the percent, and I think they improved the APM (it's now up to APM 1.2 I think). I was thinking I might >wait for the next fixpack. I'm still using fixpack 4 on my desktop (works >great, so I won't mess with it just yet). > You should try FP5, which fixes potential Y2K problems. It's the least I would put on, and I have no problems whatsoever. >>Also, if you'd like, I can send you an OS/2 VIO program that shows >>running processes, because there could be a runaway process that's eating >>your CPU time. > >I do have such a program, and just got Process Commander in the mail >today. I don't think there was a runaway process, with the exception of >the battery meter. > >>Also, when you talked about adjusting the CPU's speed, is this in the >>BIOS? > >I made the adjustment from the command line ps2 program. > Oh. Good luck. -- Paul Khoury <pkhoury@loop.com> http://pkhoury.dyn.ml.org Sent from my P75 Server running OS/2 Warp 4.0, Fixpack 6 There are 28 Processes with 93 Threads. This machine's uptime is 0d 13h 39m 0s 968ms.