On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:50:11 +0100
Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 06:42:24PM +0000, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > I think I'm still seeing some delays, though I haven't monitored
> > that closely.  I did run 'envstat -i 5' for about 45 minutes, with
> > no failures of battery charge level or state.
> 
> Battery reading can take a long time. That was part of the problem.

How long should be considered normal?

> envstat will normally take care of that, but the data will be slightly
> stale.
> 
How stale? 



		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb