Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:20:12 -0500 From: John Hood <jh@sandstorm.net> To: marcus@freebsd.org Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/128826: sysutils/hal: hald-addon-mouse-sysmouse runs fstat to poll mice every 2s, eats CPU Message-ID: <200811171320.12371.jh@sandstorm.net> In-Reply-To: <200811151752.mAFHqRJN050158@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200811151752.mAFHqRJN050158@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Saturday 15 November 2008 12:52:27 pm marcus@freebsd.org wrote: > Synopsis: sysutils/hal: hald-addon-mouse-sysmouse runs fstat to poll mice > every 2s, eats CPU > > State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed > State-Changed-By: marcus > State-Changed-When: Sat Nov 15 17:50:57 UTC 2008 > State-Changed-Why: > This is true, and currently, there isn't a better way to do what needs > to be done. Reimplementing the KVM code from fstat is too complicated for > the simple task required. I am working on an enhancement to procstat > which will allow this fork/exec problem to go away. Until then, the > only workaround is to have hald ignore your mouse device. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=128826 I'll allow that it's an ugly little problem. Might it make more sense to have moused make status available on a socket or pipe, which addon-mouse can then query directly? --jh
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