CPU Frequency Scaling
Matthias Clasen
mclasen at redhat.com
Tue Dec 5 19:08:22 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 14:02 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 12:43:59PM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 12:04 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 01:42:15PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > > Dave Jones (davej at redhat.com) said:
> > > > > It doesn't strike you that something might be amiss that a 1GHz CPU
> > > > > can't display a menu quick enough ? Shuffling the problem under the rug
> > > > > isn't the way to fix this. Find out why it's taking so long, and fix that.
> > > >
> > > > It's scanning the desktop files, almost certainly.
> > >
> > > If that's the case, it has no excuse for doing so now that we have
> > > inotify. It amazes me how much fuss the gnome people made about that
> > > feature and how it really absolutely must get into the kernel.
> > >
> > > It'd be great if stuff actually used it.
> >
> > gnome-menus uses gamin for notification, which uses inotify. The problem
> > is that inotify sucks when it comes to nonexisting files
>
> Can't you add a watch on the directory, and get notification when
> a file gets added that way?
>
Sure. But if that directory is a busy one like, say, $HOME, then you get
a lot of unnecessary wakeups.
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