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First test of Fedora 7 released (Linux.com)

Linux.com looks at Fedora 7. "There are two more test releases scheduled before Fedora 7 is slated for general availability on April 26. Though the team has remained on schedule to this point, there is still plenty of work to be done. Keating says some features of Fedora 7 are well under development while others have yet to get off the ground. The team's goal is to have them all testable by the release of Test 2 later this month with the understanding that whatever is not ready for testing at that point will be removed from the package and shelved for the time being."
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Unnecessary wakeups

Posted Feb 9, 2007 0:29 UTC (Fri) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link]

One really good piece of work that is getting some traction but not enough is the wakeup bug mentioned deep in that feature list #204948 which aims to identify and fix processes which are needlessly spinning their wheels.

On my not particularly exciting laptop, with no network connectivity and just me tapping out some notes about this problem I see more than 20 processes waking up while "idle" including...

NetworkManager
dhcddb
beagled
mixer-applet2
avahi-daemon
ssh-agent
gnome-power-manager
spamd

I'm not listing any processes that sleep for more than a few seconds at a time here, obviously cron wakes up once a minute or so, as does the desktop clock and I'd understand if that spam process woke up when I got mail or even when I checked mail, just not every two seconds, 24/7...

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