panel plugins that cause too many wakeups/s

[Kok, Auke]

Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> 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.


this is a false perception and you're changing the limits here. Those 11 wakeups
could be worsened by activity in firefox. Don't accept 11 to begin with !

11 wakeups per second for a sensor is insane, no matter how you put it.

Auke