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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:09:45 -0600
From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend
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Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Mon 2009-02-23 15:04:22, Oliver Neukum wrote:

>> We can just as well have a class of tasks less important than power
>> saving. They'd just run when power saving is not active for some other
>> reason. Just like other such schemes we end up with the problem
>> of priority inversion with locking.
> 
> Ok, I guess this could be interesting in some cases... maybe. What are
> real examples of such tasks?

Some people might put casual system monitoring tools into this 
category--top, xload, gkrellm, xclock, etc.

It'd be nice if the animated banner ad in my web browser could be 
treated this way. :)

Chris