Package: powernowd Version: 1.00-1.1 Severity: normal
The default polling interval is 1000 ms. That is a *long* time on a human interface time scale. It's also a long time compared to many tasks, like bringing up a window. In fact, I've been sitting here with my eye on the second hand of my watch, and I find that quite often, the burst of activity that triggers powernowd is all over by the time it responds. If/when that happens, turning up the CPU frequency is just a total waste. It's closing the barn door after the horse has left. So, powernowd really ought to poll faster. I know that no one likes to do it, but the hard fact is that humans do notice 200ms delays. If powernowd is actually intended to make the user interface snapper, it needs to poll at a 200ms interval, and some people might even want 100ms. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages powernowd depends on: ii libc6 2.9-23 GNU C Library: Shared libraries powernowd recommends no packages. powernowd suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
