[Xbindkeys-devel] Re: ghastly 10hz polling loop

[Philippe Brochard]

Alexander Clouter writes:

> Hi,
>
Hi,

> The patch Edwin wrote has two problems:
>  * if you have guile support, it never checks if the rc (non-guile) file 
>       is ever updated
>
Ok I've fixed this.

>  * every 0.1s the process wakes up to stat() the config file, for us 
>       laptop folk who like to run NOHZ is makes us grumble
>
I've applied your patch to add the pool-rc flag. Thanks.

> I have attached two patches that fix both these problems, the later 
> patch makes the polling optional (by default turned off as realistically 
> this file should not be amended regularly in the Real World[tm]).
>
Well, another solution is to increase the SLEEP_TIME variable to
something less stressing for your battery (indeed 10hz is fairly
quick for this purpose). BTW your patch can be useful and has been
applied.

> Please, next time run 'strace' on any code you write ;)
>
Thanks for the tip and many thanks for your patchs. 
Please, can you can test them from the git repo before I do a new
relase ?

https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/xbindkeys/
https://savannah.nongnu.org/git/?group=xbindkeys


Regards,

Philippe