CPU Frequency Scaling

[Matthias Clasen]

On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 14:02 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 12:43:59PM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>  > On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 12:04 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 01:42:15PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>  > >  > Dave Jones (davej at redhat.com) said: 
>  > >  > > It doesn't strike you that something might be amiss that a 1GHz CPU
>  > >  > > can't display a menu quick enough ?  Shuffling the problem under the rug
>  > >  > > isn't the way to fix this. Find out why it's taking so long, and fix that.
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > It's scanning the desktop files, almost certainly.
>  > > 
>  > > If that's the case, it has no excuse for doing so now that we have
>  > > inotify.  It amazes me how much fuss the gnome people made about that
>  > > feature and how it really absolutely must get into the kernel.
>  > > 
>  > > It'd be great if stuff actually used it.
>  > 
>  > 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.