Re: man page error, high CPU load, 3.* sources patch

[Matthias G. <mat...@us...>]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:46:22 +0200
mas...@gm... wrote:

Hi Massimo,
Thanks for your mail. You are right, the project is not very active anymore
and even I changed to an non-apple laptop in the meantime.

Anyway, I corrected the errors in the man pages and scripts you discovered,
in the upstream code. Who knows what this would be good for. :-)

I had a look at you high cpu load problem. Even I changed to glib in version
0.8.x not everthing is event driven. Autorescan causes a lot of cpu load, as
you already discovered.

To find out more it would be the best to compile with --enable-debug. Have a look
into debug.h. You can enable a lot of different debug information. PEEP_TIMER
might be of special interest for you. Start the daemon in a console without
letting it detach and watch the output.

> I also think about porting the pbbuttonsd functionality to the common pm-utils, which does most of the things quite equally.
> 
> Is this project still alive? The was no submit and mailing list traffic
> the last years. If so I feel no need to migrate to pm-utils if we can keep
> the old ppc books and also new Macbooks alive with pbbuttonsd.

Powermac users with a PPC CPU are a distinguishing species. New features are
no longer needed and the download numbers are around 2 per month, and I think
this are robots, not knowing what they are doing. ;-)

To transfer all of pbbuttonsd functionality to pm-utils might by tricky because
you need some special tools to tweak the hardware but you could combine both
which a special script dispatcher. In this case you get at least rid of the rather
outdated scripts of pbbuttons.

 Best Regards
   Matthias


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Matthias Grimm <mat...@us...>