Hi - On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:45:28AM +0100, Ivan Krstić wrote: > >if the all brand new XO-focused software doesn't already do this
> We're building a platform [...] Software built on our platform will > keep improving [...] Please don't interpret this concern as a criticism of what's been accomplished. It's simply an implication that the ideal state (each and every user-space program never polling any more, right?) is unlikely to be reachable. > >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. [...] That's exactly the sort of heuristic that an XO power boss tool could apply. A tool with such heuristics may well be easier to construct than fixes for all of userspace. - FChE _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
