Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:15:36 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0 |
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Hi!
> Imagine for a moment that we solve time-warp somehow. Any other > problems? > > Well, a user-level daemon have to process a lot of data just to detect user > interaction. Considering that the trackpad bandwidth is nearly 5KB/sec, > probably would be better to leave my panel alone... :-/
Ok, so we may want to introduce something like "tell me if some data came from last time"... Actually, 5KB/sec is pretty much okay, and you probably could get around actually reading that data.
When you know user is moving the touchpad, you could just sleep for 5 seconds (assuming user activity) and only then start monitoring it again?
> I'd really like to get "is user idle" solved, but it really should not be in > kernel unless it _has_ to. And time-warp probably causes problems not only > for your daemon. > > IMHO signal the user-space is a kernel duty and no user-space daemon will ever > make it better. There are plenty of PM daemons out there, but Linux still lacks
Well, I do not think your kernel code is mergeable. But bits to enable similar functionality in userspace probably would be mergeable.
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