[maemo-developers] suspendprocess - poor man's power save

From: Attila Csipa maemo at csipa.in.rs
Date: Thu Sep 23 22:47:43 EEST 2010
On Monday 20 September 2010 17:35:34 you wrote:
> There are some potential downsides for just suspending processes
> completely.  Most of the processes have subscribed to several
> different D-BUS messages, X events etc.
> 
> For example D-BUS will infinitely buffer messages that are sent
> to a connected client but not read by it.  If these messages can
> be very frequent (say device orientation & network condition messages),
> this will soon bloat D-BUS memory usage quite a bit.  After D-BUS

Hmm... the external launcher that suspends is meant for apps that cannot 
really handle/listen to dbus in the first place - if they can, they should 
react to the lose-focus / screen off messages directly, not through 
intermediary daemons, right ?

Best regards,
Attila Csipa
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