On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Iain Hibbert wrote:

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> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Iain Hibbert wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Juan RP wrote:
> >
> > > If you increased kern.envsys.refresh_timeout and you are still seeing
> > > that smtaskq is using a lot of cpu time, I dunno.
> >
> > I'm investigating more, though its complex and too many distractions today :)
>
> FWIW I don't think its the envsys part munching CPU directly

and now I'm fairly sure that its not even related to sysmon - I've
disabled acpi, and still get the same fan pulsing behaviour with no sysmon
task.. maybe it is the idle task that others noticed recently, I'll see
how that pans out when I update again

iain