Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] idle rhythmbox

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 10:40 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> The guys at intel have just released a tool called PowerTop
> http://www.linuxpowertop.org (announcement to fedora-devel -
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-May/msg00796.html
> )
> 
> Anyway I installed it to play around with and noticed that rhythmbox
> was appearing fairly frequently even though it was idle and not
> playing (I forgot I even had it running). Something like 6.2% of the
> nearly 2500 wakeups in a second (output below).
<snip>
>    3.6%          rhythmbox : do_nanosleep (hrtimer_wakeup)
<snip>
>    2.6%          rhythmbox : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)

It would have been more useful getting a proper trace of where this
wakeup comes from. Was Rhythmbox idle or not when you did this?

>    2.6%      mixer_applet2 : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370937
and
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152864

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>