Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:09:45 -0600 | From | "Chris Friesen" <> | Subject | Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend |
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Pavel Machek wrote: > On Mon 2009-02-23 15:04:22, Oliver Neukum wrote:
>> We can just as well have a class of tasks less important than power >> saving. They'd just run when power saving is not active for some other >> reason. Just like other such schemes we end up with the problem >> of priority inversion with locking. > > Ok, I guess this could be interesting in some cases... maybe. What are > real examples of such tasks?
Some people might put casual system monitoring tools into this category--top, xload, gkrellm, xclock, etc.
It'd be nice if the animated banner ad in my web browser could be treated this way. :)
Chris
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