> "if users encounter critical bugs, they are not going to wait a year, they > switch to another distro within weeks" > > Why are you saying this to me? I don't work for Canonical..
As another user, I appreciate your effort, I just meant that assuming that people are going to be able to test the bugs they reported months ago, is a bit optimistic. As I said, I don't have anymore Gnome desktop (except at work, but that's Debian Etch). > Are you using powertop to check what is polling the most? Strace, Feisty is too old to have powertop. One can attach strace to multiple processes with -p option. > How many wakeup per second is too many? If the application should be idle and is not doing anything for the user, at most it should wake up once a second I think. Best would be if the application would use event based APIs instead of polling, but sometimes such APIs are not available (yet). > Firefox is doing 93 right now. That is the top on the list. There is one app > that's doing 40 but the other are under 10. Your Firefox is mostly like showing the (flash advertisement or gif) animations for you, so it's not actually idle :). If you minimize its window or switch to another workspace so that it's not visible, that kind of activity should in principle stop, but I doubt Firefox and Flashplayer have that kind of co-operation. It could also be some stupid JavaScript code on the page you're viewing that's doing the looping. Browser is a bit complicated use-case for this, besides it's own stuff, it has three VMs for running scripts (one for JS and two for Flash). -- [edgy] constantly polling gnome desktop processes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/102543 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
