Re: CPU Frequency Scaling

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan fenrus demon nl>]

On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 14:17 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 02:08:22PM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>  
>  > >  > gnome-menus uses gamin for notification, which uses inotify. The problem
>  > >  > is that inotify sucks when it comes to nonexisting files
>  > > 
>  > > Can't you add a watch on the directory, and get notification when
>  > > a file gets added that way?
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > Sure. But if that directory is a busy one like, say, $HOME, then you get
>  > a lot of unnecessary wakeups.
> 
> That's still got to be more efficient than polling.

surely you can rate limit this and just on busy dirs at most scan every
4 seconds... (which is the current poll interval)