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| author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2008-02-20 08:48:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2008-02-20 08:48:03 +0000 |
| commit | e2e775add92fae835119d132da33ea4ae0a5ae62 (patch) | |
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| parent | bc732b6d6832125525f1c8f4a728125039b09e64 (diff) | |
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created some notes on powertop and imfile
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diff --git a/doc/imfile.html b/doc/imfile.html index c35fd022..d8a105bf 100644 --- a/doc/imfile.html +++ b/doc/imfile.html @@ -1,8 +1,6 @@ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html><head> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en"><title>Text File Input Monitor</title> - -</head> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en"><title>Text File Input Monitor</title></head> <body> <h1>Text File Input Module</h1> <p><b>Module Name: imfile</b></p> @@ -89,7 +87,13 @@ nothing is left to be processed.</li> </ul> <b>Caveats/Known Bugs:</b> <p>So far, only 100 files can be monitored. If more are needed, -the source needs to be patched. See define MAX_INPUT_FILES in imfile.c +the source needs to be patched. See define MAX_INPUT_FILES in imfile.c</p><p>Powertop +users may want to notice that imfile utilizes polling. Thus, it is no +good citizen when it comes to conserving system power consumption. We +are currently evaluating to move to inotify(). However, there are a +number of subtle issues, which needs to be worked out first. We will +make the change as soon as we can. If you can afford it, we recommend +using a long polling interval in the mean time. </p> <p><b>Sample:</b></p> <p>The following sample monitors two files. If you need just one, |