** Also affects: indicator-datetime (Ubuntu Saucy)
Importance: Medium
Assignee: Charles Kerr (charlesk)
Status: In Progress
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1238043
Title:
indicator-datetime-service is opening /etc/localtime every 5 seconds
even on a totally "idle" system
Status in “indicator-datetime” package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Status in “indicator-datetime” source package in Saucy:
In Progress
Bug description:
In an attempt to reduce unnecessary frequent periodic file access to
save power, I noticed that indicator-datetime-service is opening and
closing /etc/localtime every 5 seconds on my desktop and not
apparently reading this file. On the ubuntu phone it is doing the
same thing with /etc/writable/localtime.
This seems a little excessive, especially because the TZ data doesn't
change quite that frequently. It would be useful if this excessive
polling on the file could be reduced if possible.
[Impact]
* Battery drain, wasting energy by a lot of unnecessary polling
[Test Case]
* Observe how often /etc/localtime or /etc/writable/localtime gets opened
for reading
[Regression Potential]
* Possibility to not get the local time reliably
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