Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend

[Chris Friesen]

Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Mon 2009-02-23 15:04:22, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> > We can just as well have a class of tasks less important than power
> > saving. They'd just run when power saving is not active for some other
> > reason. Just like other such schemes we end up with the problem
> > of priority inversion with locking.
>
> Ok, I guess this could be interesting in some cases... maybe. What are
> real examples of such tasks?

Some people might put casual system monitoring tools into this 
category--top, xload, gkrellm, xclock, etc.

It'd be nice if the animated banner ad in my web browser could be 
treated this way. :)

Chris
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