various kde programs spin in a poll/read loop against their
respective config files
Christof Schulze
christof.schulze at gmx.com
Sat Sep 26 13:25:23 UTC 2009
Hello everyone,
the discussion in -current and the behavior of my hard disk caused me to
investigate. Whenever kde programs are run on this system, the hard disk
will not spin down (even when excessive timeouts for syncs are in effect)
So I ran truss against kwallet and plasma-desktop to find out they do the
same thing:
stat("/home/erika/.kde4/share/apps/kwallet",{ mode=drwx------
,inode=56314,size=3,blksize=4096 }) = 0 (0x0)
clock_gettime(4,{10454.430272035 }) = 0 (0x0)
clock_gettime(4,{10454.430363671 }) = 0 (0x0)
clock_gettime(4,{10454.430432397 }) = 0 (0x0)
clock_gettime(4,{10454.430516490 }) = 0 (0x0)
read(8,0x808f9102c,4096) ERR#35 'Resource temporarily
unavailable'
poll({3/POLLIN 9/POLLIN 8/POLLIN 5/POLLIN},4,0) = 0 (0x0)
clock_gettime(4,{10454.430734403 }) = 0 (0x0)
read(8,0x808f9102c,4096) ERR#35 'Resource temporarily
unavailable'
clock_gettime(4,{10454.430882473 }) = 0 (0x0)
read(8,0x808f9102c,4096) ERR#35 'Resource temporarily
unavailable'
poll({3/POLLIN 9/POLLIN 8/POLLIN 5/POLLIN},4,499) = 0 (0x0)
clock_gettime(4,{10454.939752100 }) = 0 (0x0)
read(8,0x808f9102c,4096) ERR#35 'Resource temporarily
unavailable'
clock_gettime(4,{10454.939905198 }) = 0 (0x0)
stat("/home/erika/.kde4/share/apps/kwallet",{ mode=drwx------
,inode=56314,size=3,blksize=4096 }) = 0 (0x0)
clock_gettime(4,{10454.940151049 }) = 0 (0x0)
clock_gettime(4,{10454.940242126 }) = 0 (0x0)
clock_gettime(4,{10454.940309456 }) = 0 (0x0)
clock_gettime(4,{10454.940392710 }) = 0 (0x0)
read(8,0x808f9102c,4096) ERR#35 'Resource temporarily
unavailable'
poll({3/POLLIN 9/POLLIN 8/POLLIN 5/POLLIN},4,0) = 0 (0x0)
clock_gettime(4,{10454.940612580 }) = 0 (0x0)
read(8,0x808f9102c,4096) ERR#35 'Resource temporarily
unavailable'
clock_gettime(4,{10454.940760929 }) = 0 (0x0)
read(8,0x808f9102c,4096) ERR#35 'Resource temporarily
unavailable'
Shouldn't this be handled by fam/gamin in order to avoid this overhead?
While it does not produce notable load it prevents my processor from
saving power as well as spinning down the disks. I will gladly provide
more information on this if necessary.
This is a FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Tue Jul 7 04:56:00
CEST 2009
root at ccschu935:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
system
Regards
Christof
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