Hi there Steve,
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 01:11:02PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Hi Ricardo :)
>
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:00:30AM +0200, Ricardo Mones wrote:
> > > An strace of xbindkeys shows that it wakes up 10 times a second to
> > > look for a non-existent config file:
>
> > > read(3, 0x2641764, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource
> > > temporarily unavailable) stat("/home/vorlon/.xbindkeysrc.scm",
> > [...]
>
> > > *Creating* an empty file there doesn't stop it from doing this,
> > > either. This was annoying to discover on my laptop - that's a big
> > > waste of power for a program that I actually interact with an average
> > > of once a month.
>
> > Seems it has already been reported upstream [0] and the patch
> > accepted, but still no new release. Can you check if it fixes the
> > problem?
>
> > If it does I can upload a patched package in the meantime to
> > have it fixed in Squeeze for sure.
>
> > [0]
> > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/xbindkeys-devel/2010-01/msg00000.html
>
> Extracting the patch was more pain than it should have been owing to
> whitespace changes mixed in with every revision, but yes, this fixes the CPU
> usage problem.Umm, that pain was not expected, do you still have the patch at hand or should I suffer it as well? > (It's unfortunate that it does so at the expense of functionality - perhaps > someone should tell upstream about inotify?) Someone already did [1], though not sure whether the answer is still true or not, I'm a inotifygnorant myself ;) [0] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/xbindkeys-devel/2010-01/msg00001.html -- Ricardo Mones ~ Datei nicht gefunden Fehler 404
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