Top wakeups causers

Arjan van de Ven arjan at linux.intel.com
Mon May 14 11:08:01 PDT 2007


Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 19:50 +0300, Aaron Baff wrote:
> 
>> Hmm...this sounds like it has something to do with either
>> Enlightenment17 or the binary NVidia drivers I have. E17 has some
>> nifty features which let you have a background that actually morphes
>> (basically a mini graphics program). However when I turn it off and
>> just use a static background the setitimer() usage does drop quite a
>> bit so it may not be that.
> 
> The other thing I'm concerned about with the setitimer accounting is
> that, afaict, it's not distinguishing between asking for a timer to
> expire at some point in the future, and actually having that timer
> expire and the signal delivered. 

timer_stats is only timers that actually fire. If you kill them in 
time they won't show



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