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Date:      Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:22:03 +0100
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>
Cc:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r241576 - in head/usr.sbin/cron: cron crontab lib
Message-ID:  <507C8C8B.8010704@cran.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <1350335891.1123.160.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
References:  <201210150821.q9F8Lobc047576@svn.freebsd.org> <20121015202615.GJ1383@garage.freebsd.pl> <1350333885.1123.153.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <CAGH67wSATkcsMMFcd3=rkM%2BDZ=g-ke67zeuXd9RZ-=UY_9sdLg@mail.gmail.com> <1350335891.1123.160.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>

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On 15/10/2012 22:18, Ian Lepore wrote:
> In 1987 I would have been outraged at waking up at 1hz needlessly.
> Sitting here typing on a machine that's doing 12,000 interrupts/sec just
> to maintain clocks, and top shows interrupts using 0.0% cpu, it's hard
> to get too upset about a 1hz loop anymore.

People are getting upset about unnecessary wakeups again because it's 
possible to save quite a bit of power by keeping the system idle.

-- 
Bruce Cran



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