CPU Frequency Scaling

[Dave Jones]

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?

		Dave