Please merge procfs... :-)

[Danny Kukawka]

On Saturday 29 January 2005 18:55, Paul Ionescu wrote:
> >> The polling interval could/should be part of a user policy, so we can
> >> change it dynamically.
> >
> > Not sure; this sounds like an uninteresting implementation detail cf. my
> > rant above about 'idealized interface'.
>
> Theoretically yes, but on some systems, polling too often, may result in
> degraded performance due to execution of acpi methods.
> But for now, I can live with that.
>

I think also, polling interval should be dynamically changeable. You would 
like mybe change the interval if your laptop runs on battery to get more 
current values or you would reduce polling if it increase system load (see 
discussion about battery).

Danny
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