svn commit: r241576 - in head/usr.sbin/cron: cron crontab lib

Bruce Cran bruce at cran.org.uk
Mon Oct 15 22:22:12 UTC 2012


On 15/10/2012 22:18, Ian Lepore wrote:
> In 1987 I would have been outraged at waking up at 1hz needlessly.
> Sitting here typing on a machine that's doing 12,000 interrupts/sec just
> to maintain clocks, and top shows interrupts using 0.0% cpu, it's hard
> to get too upset about a 1hz loop anymore.

People are getting upset about unnecessary wakeups again because it's 
possible to save quite a bit of power by keeping the system idle.

-- 
Bruce Cran


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