From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 16 03:56:39 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03738B0B for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 03:56:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pfg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from nm32-vm6.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com (nm32-vm6.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com [98.136.216.229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5BC58FC0A for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 03:56:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.137.12.57] by nm32.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 16 Oct 2012 03:50:48 -0000 Received: from [208.71.42.191] by tm2.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 16 Oct 2012 03:50:48 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp202.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 16 Oct 2012 03:50:48 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 699518.54932.bm@smtp202.mail.gq1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: YkJbOf4VM1l0uF_C4iJnPKMDTjLLPgY9laTl6vJ3JTYf5Ko xM63oQshGcWEXMYHxEBJYrEN9Zr2mnXeQjyXjxZugLbD.Cmy4njxV0ad6jhh iak_nwGhiDXbrT2omexHp2WtmLEgvs3im6LWd10M8KaXHw5WZ35KA3RqcypC XnHw0JE8bk7RzYDqXgNjCSqd7svSz8lTPoVTbUQMqpC0rSMqhtk8CsXuNgXk Wg1hvCaVoqYkdCQl8mVK5CwaFRlr_IBNujDipJPUW_vkoRvbtNkh7WsKAmqy POwFeb32Rnl4e8Qr0Jxhjzoe23NaeAMe9oMglS8wHFqo5m7axzLx1D5Mw6Eu NU52EzUB5ODd8pHtq8x5fZeEL4yei4WKqAdZ0EVu5qSYJzbUvi9V2D.QJFHN 8b3BaN.W59vuJwTb5b_vfMZurAlnnv41a_Kx8IMZVXhkrMx3D0QEXMzeKS7D Xgkzgau1CrHlyEP4FIbpH6zB2ZGncHQ-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: xcjD0guswBAZaPPIbxpWwLcp9Unf Received: from [192.168.10.101] (pfg@200.118.157.7 with plain) by smtp202.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Oct 2012 20:50:48 -0700 PDT Message-ID: <507CD99D.1070606@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:50:53 -0500 From: Pedro Giffuni User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120621 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Evans Subject: Re: svn commit: r241576 - in head/usr.sbin/cron: cron crontab lib References: <201210150821.q9F8Lobc047576@svn.freebsd.org> <20121015202615.GJ1383@garage.freebsd.pl> <1350333885.1123.153.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <1350335891.1123.160.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <20121016133233.I1358@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20121016133233.I1358@besplex.bde.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ian Lepore , src-committers@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek , Maxim Sobolev , Garrett Cooper , svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 03:56:39 -0000 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.