Suspect display-time is on?
>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Nicolaescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dan> Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Given the number of modes in Emacs that now use timers to
>> do things during the idel-delay, it might be useful to
>> create a single-point of customization --- perhaps
>> initially as an interactive command, that one can invoke
>> to "enter laptop power saving mode" --- somewhat similar
>> in spirit to the various laptop-mode shell scripts
>> floating around the net.
>>
>> Is there really anything except stealth fontification that
>> will _continue_ waking up? As far as I know, everything
>> else just operates once each time Emacs becomes idle.
Dan>
Dan> There seems to be.
Dan>
Dan> On my Fedora Core 5 machine, emacs compiled with the
Dan> Lucid toolkit doing:
Dan>
Dan> emacs -D -Q& strace -p PID_OF_EMACS
Dan>
Dan> Prints things like this a few times a second:
Dan>
Dan> gettimeofday({1157213370, 605043}, NULL) = 0 select(5,
Dan> [4], NULL, NULL, {25, 670718}) = ? ERESTARTNOHAND (To be
Dan> restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) ---
Dan> gettimeofday({1157213370, 708405}, NULL) = 0
Dan> gettimeofday({1157213370, 708534}, NULL) = 0
Dan> gettimeofday({1157213370, 708662}, NULL) = 0
Dan> setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0,
Dan> 99743}}, NULL) = 0 sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])
Dan> gettimeofday({1157213370, 709043}, NULL) = 0 select(5,
Dan> [4], NULL, NULL, {25, 566718}) = ? ERESTARTNOHAND (To be
Dan> restarted) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) ---
Dan> gettimeofday({1157213370, 812405}, NULL) = 0
Dan> gettimeofday({1157213370, 812535}, NULL) = 0
Dan> gettimeofday({1157213370, 812663}, NULL) = 0
Dan> setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0,
Dan> 99742}}, NULL) = 0 sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) ....
Dan>
Dan> so there is some activity all the time. Is this
Dan> something that can be avoided?
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