panel plugins that cause too many wakeups/s

[Christian Dywan]

> > battery monitor plugin: 3
> 
> I believe the current released battery plugin polls for battery
> status, so there's not much you can do except increase the interval.
> The version in Nick's "hal_based" branch in SVN works very well, and
> doesn't poll, but instead uses HAL which does async notification of
> changes. I've been using it for many months now without problems, and
> I never see it show up in powertop at all.

Incidentally, why is this still a branch and not replacing trunk? Is it
because it shouldn't depend on HAL? I've also been running the HAL
branch for quite some time now and I can't imagine why someone would
use something else unless that person is unaware of the branch. If HAL
is the problem, I would at least suggest to merge the two things and
pick one at build time.

> > Without the above plugins, an idle desktop causes less than 7
> > wakeups/s. This is with a running panel with the weather, clock, and
> > sensors plugin running (and a few other plugins with static content,
> > like the pager, task list, menu, dict, quit button and some
> > launchers). The sensors plugin update interval is 60 seconds.
> 
> Heh, I can't get my laptop under 200 wakeups per second or so, but 
> that's probably just ppc kernel issues and too many (hopefully)
> useless interrupts...  And firefox.

You are not seriously looking at wakeups while running something like
firefox, are you? That's like using a full dvd image in order to
test how good your archiver can compress files :)

ciao,
    Christian