On Saturday 12 January 2008, Reinhard Nissl wrote: > Ville Skyttä schrieb: > > > Also, somewhat off topic: when running powertop[1] on my VDR box, I see > > lircd waking up the CPU from idle about 1000 times a second while VDR is > > connected to it: > > > > Top causes for wakeups: > > 54.3% (988.1) lircd : schedule_timeout (process_timeout) > > 28.5% (518.4) vdr : futex_wait (hrtimer_wakeup) > > [...] > > > > I already tried adding some cCondWait::SleepMs's to VDR's lirc action > > loop but it didn't seem to have any effect. Any ideas whether this is > > something that VDR could do anything about, or if it's a LIRC internal > > thing? > > Well VDR's lirc action loop uses a timeout only when it needs to > generate a keyup event after a key repeat event. Otherwise it > blocks in cFile::FileReady's select() until a button gets pressed > on the remote. > > Try running irw instead of VDR and check powertop again.
Yep, same thing with irw so I suppose this needs to be addressed in LIRC, not VDR. Thanks. _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
