panel plugins that cause too many wakeups/s

[Christian Dywan]

Am Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:17:32 +0100
schrieb Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org>:

> On mar, 2008-10-28 at 02:05 +0100, Christian Dywan wrote:
> > > 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 :)
> 
> Well, a typical work session isn't just looking at battery and system
> load plugin. A browser is often present. So if the browser gives some
> dozen wps, having sensor plugin at 11 is not that awful.

Well, the point is that firefox is not "just a little bit" over average
but it's in a dimension that doesn't make it useful for comparison. If
you usually need to keep firefox open all day you can still inspect
your wakeups without it running.

ciao,
    Christian