On Fri 2009-02-27 11:09:45, Chris Friesen wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: >> On Mon 2009-02-23 15:04:22, Oliver Neukum wrote: > >>> We can just as well have a class of tasks less important than power >>> saving. They'd just run when power saving is not active for some other >>> reason. Just like other such schemes we end up with the problem >>> of priority inversion with locking. >> >> Ok, I guess this could be interesting in some cases... maybe. What are >> real examples of such tasks? > > Some people might put casual system monitoring tools into this > category--top, xload, gkrellm, xclock, etc. I guess system monitoring should stop itself when screen is blanked... no need to compute list of processes if user can't see the output. But I see that may be slightly hard for command-line tool like top. .... but it still seems like right solution. Why waste power/cycles displaying xclock at tty9 when user is looking at tty10? > It'd be nice if the animated banner ad in my web browser could be > treated this way. :) Well, my web browser already has an option 'animate once'. No need to waste power with that at all :-). Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
