On Jan 25, 2008, at 1:31 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > if the all brand new XO-focused software doesn't already do this
We're building a platform, and have been completely and brutally transparent about our progress. Software built on our platform will keep improving rapidly along a number of axes, power management being one, and even more rapidly if folks jump in and help us with the work. Patches welcome ;) > So you may end up needing a tool that applies heuristics and > overrides the CPU > requests of poor programs. As an anecdote, I spend a non-trivial amount of time working in disconnected environments using battery power on my non-XO laptop, and I've been obtaining noticeable battery life gains by manually SIGSTOPping Firefox when not in use. Now, I usually have about 70-200 tabs open -- which may be an edge case, but _shouldn't_ be: programmers need to learn that when I'm not actively using their software, it shouldn't be _doing_ stuff on my machine without a very good reason. -- Ivan Krstić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://radian.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
