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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:27:46 -0800
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:35:39 -0800
Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> wrote:

> However, if you
> install an application that wakes up 60 times a second (to check if it
> need to draw something on the screen) the difference between idle and
> suspend becomes 10 hours versus 40 days, or 10 hours versus 3 days
> with my use.

then that is the point where you use the timerslack to throttle such
non-system applications.... that's very obvious and there today..


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