rtkit-daemon canary and watchdog threads could be less busy to save wakeups
Bug #1266885 reported by
Colin Ian King
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Ubuntu Power Consumption Project |
New
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
| rtkit (Ubuntu) |
New
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
It seems that the rt-kitdaemon has a couple of threads that ensure rtkit-daemon is sane, namely a watchdog and canary monitoring thread. These are waking up by default every 5000ms, which between them means rtkit-daemon is creating 24 wakeups a minute just doing sanity checking.
Apparently one can specify the canary cheep and canary watchdog times via --canary-cheep-msec and --canary-
| Changed in rtkit (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| Changed in ubuntu-power-consumption: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| Changed in rtkit (Ubuntu): | |
| milestone: | none → ubuntu-14.04 |
| Changed in rtkit (Ubuntu): | |
| milestone: | ubuntu-14.04 → none |
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