<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 17/08/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eero Tamminen</b> <<a href="mailto:eero.tamminen@nokia.com">eero.tamminen@nokia.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br><br>ext Michael Thompson wrote:<br>> On 17/08/07, Eero Tamminen <<a href="mailto:eero.tamminen@nokia.com">eero.tamminen@nokia.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> ext Frantisek Dufka wrote:<br>>>> True. But still seeing power consumption could help and having actual
<br>>>> current drawn from battery somewhere in /proc would be very useful in<br>>>> many situations.<br>>>><br>>>> <snip><br>>>> These were just examples and some of them may not be good but you should
<br>>>> still see the point.<br>>> Yes, they are good points. Better tools are always needed.<br>>><br>>> I'm just frustrated that people don't use the tools that<br>>> are already available, both on desktop[1] and for the device.
<br>>> Even with the currency consumption meter you would still need top &<br>>> strace to find out which process actually consumes the power.<br>><br>> So it turns out claws is doing a gettimeofday poll every 10 seconds, so
<br>> you're right the strace was useful, but it's hard to quantify the affect of<br>> this polling and whether it's significant enough to warrant the developers<br>> fixing.<br><br>10 sec interval is not that bad. (LinuxThreads thread manager polls
<br>at 8 sec interval in the devices i.e. all apps using threads poll in<br>the device, NPTL will fix that, but requires a new toolchain)<br><br>If Claws would be using network at that interval or e.g. writing to<br>Flash, then it would definitely be bad. Also if it does that polling
<br>when it's not visible (and updates screen?) when it's not visible, that<br>would also be bad.</blockquote><div><br>It happens when claws is minimised and set to off-line mode.<br><br>I imagine it could be related to code to poll servers at some interval, but I haven't had time to look into it any further.
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