Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:50:53 -0500 From: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org> To: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> Cc: Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@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: <507CD99D.1070606@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20121016133233.I1358@besplex.bde.org> 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> <20121016133233.I1358@besplex.bde.org>
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On 10/15/2012 22:01, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, Ian Lepore wrote: > >> On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 13:52 -0700, Garrett Cooper 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. > > It's more outrageous now, since there are more battery-powered systems > and even mains power is much more expensive. > Which reminds me why Apple created launchd for ;). Pedro.
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