Bug#469166: frequency

[Tim Connors <tconnors@rather.puzzling.org>]

Note that on my machine, syndaemon itself shows up as waking up the kernel
50 times a second, but when syndaemon is running, "<kernel IPI> :
Rescheduling interrupts" comes in at 140 times a second -- something that
doesn't exist when syndaemon goes away.

When I kill syndaemon, my power usage goes down from 18.5watts to 17watts,
which gives me an extra half hour of battery life.  But then I can't type
on my keyboard, because my mouse cursor keeps on wandering over the screen
:(

It seems it should be fairly routine to just select() on the keyboard and
mouse, no?  No need to wake up 50 times a second, and would be more
responsive, especially more responsive than if it wanted to wake up only 5
times a second.

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TimC
> cat ~/.signature
Electromagnetic pulse received (core dumped)