Comment 13 for bug 578930

I'm getting burned by this too, and I disagree with Mr. Kirkland's assertion that Ubuntu should just use the upstream default.

There are many, many Ubuntu packages which alter the "upstream default" to make Ubuntu a more user-friendly experience. One could even argue that Ubuntu's best feature is that it changes the "upstream defaults" of the world to be something that actually works for human beings.

Please, set this to a reasonable value (200ms?). As has been pointed out, the "upsteam default" is not even considered a reasonable value by the upstream maintainers.

Ethically speaking, this bug is causing more CPU power consumption (and thus, global warming) for absolutely no reason whatsoever.