Hi! > > >The applets that were doing it (yes, up to 100 times per second) > > >corrected their ways pretty quickly, because some machines became > > >unusable with the applet enabled. > > > > Exactly -- and they've been working merrily ever since. > > And if you don't want to trust applet developers, cache the latest > > reads and refresh them only if X jiffies have passed. > > The timer interrupt still has to happen every time their select() or > sleep() expires, with the system having to wake up, even when nothing > happened. Polling from userspace is bad. I do not understand this. Any polling (in kernel or in userspace) will wake the CPU, wasting power. OTOH "high/low/very low" battery applet can reasonably query battery every 5 minutes, while detailed, graphical thingie displaying the current power consumption will probably poll every 10 seconds... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
