CPU Frequency Scaling

[Matthias Clasen]

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, and relevant
people refuse to fix it, so gamin still needs to poll sometimes.