On 15/10/2012 22:18, Ian Lepore 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.

People are getting upset about unnecessary wakeups again because it's possible to save quite a bit of power by keeping the system idle.

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Bruce Cran
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