svn commit: r241576 - in head/usr.sbin/cron: cron crontab lib

Pedro Giffuni pfg at FreeBSD.org
Tue Oct 16 03:56:39 UTC 2012


On 10/15/2012 22:01, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, Ian Lepore wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 13:52 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>> ...
>>
>> In 1987 I would have been outraged at waking up at 1hz needlessly.
>> Sitting here typing on a machine that's doing 12,000 interrupts/sec just
>> to maintain clocks, and top shows interrupts using 0.0% cpu, it's hard
>> to get too upset about a 1hz loop anymore.
>
> It's more outrageous now, since there are more battery-powered systems
> and even mains power is much more expensive.
>


Which reminds me why Apple created launchd for ;).

Pedro.




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