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Re: [gpsd-dev] Fwd: Re: gpsd for time sync on Ubuntu remix too hard for
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Gary E. Miller |
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Re: [gpsd-dev] Fwd: Re: gpsd for time sync on Ubuntu remix too hard for normals - how to improve? |
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Tue, 7 May 2019 18:32:05 -0700 |
Yo Greg!
On Tue, 07 May 2019 17:53:25 -0400
Greg Troxel <address@hidden> wrote:
> Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > diff --git a/man/gpsd.xml b/man/gpsd.xml
> > index ad639819..949e07a5 100644
> > --- a/man/gpsd.xml
> > +++ b/man/gpsd.xml
> > @@ -199,7 +199,8 @@ some cellphone and handheld embedded GPSes have
> > similar behaviors. Accordingly, waiting for a watch request to open
> > the device may save battery power. (This capability is rare in
> > consumer-grade devices). You should use this option if you plan to
> > use gpsd to provide reference -clock information to ntpd through a
> > memory-shared segment. +clock information to ntpd through a
> > memory-shared segment. Be aware that +this option will keep the OS
> > from going to sleep. </para>
> > </listitem>
> > </varlistentry>
>
>
> I think it's good to say something, but which OSes decide to enter
> which powersave states based on what kind of userland activity seems
> like a very broad brush. So perhaps
>
> With -n, gpsd will continue to read from a receiver and process the
> data. On some systems, this can prevent the system from entering
> sleep. An example is FooOS, which [MAKING STUFF UP in its default
> configuration, detects processes using CPU time, and avoids
> sleeping in that case.]
I don't know of any OS where an actively running simple daemon does not
stop sleeping. There are OS where a daemon can tell the OS that it
can be put to sleep, but gpsd is not smart enough to do that.
So I inclined much more to Lisandro's wording.
Maybe "will prevent" to "will likely prevent"?
RGDS
GARY
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- [gpsd-dev] Fwd: Re: gpsd for time sync on Ubuntu remix too hard for normals - how to improve?, Adam Serbinski, 2019/05/05
- Re: [gpsd-dev] Fwd: Re: gpsd for time sync on Ubuntu remix too hard for normals - how to improve?, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer, 2019/05/05
- Re: [gpsd-dev] Fwd: Re: gpsd for time sync on Ubuntu remix too hard for normals - how to improve?, Gary E. Miller, 2019/05/06
- Re: [gpsd-dev] Fwd: Re: gpsd for time sync on Ubuntu remix too hard for normals - how to improve?, Gary E. Miller, 2019/05/06
- Re: [gpsd-dev] Fwd: Re: gpsd for time sync on Ubuntu remix too hard for normals - how to improve?, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer, 2019/05/07
- Re: [gpsd-dev] Fwd: Re: gpsd for time sync on Ubuntu remix too hard for normals - how to improve?, Greg Troxel, 2019/05/07
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- Re: [gpsd-dev] Fwd: Re: gpsd for time sync on Ubuntu remix too hard for normals - how to improve?, Greg Troxel, 2019/05/08
- Re: [gpsd-dev] Fwd: Re: gpsd for time sync on Ubuntu remix too hard for normals - how to improve?, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer, 2019/05/08
- Re: [gpsd-dev] Fwd: Re: gpsd for time sync on Ubuntu remix too hard for normals - how to improve?, Gary E. Miller, 2019/05/08
- Re: [gpsd-dev] Fwd: Re: gpsd for time sync on Ubuntu remix too hard for normals - how to improve?, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer, 2019/05/08
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- Re: [gpsd-dev] Fwd: Re: gpsd for time sync on Ubuntu remix too hard for normals - how to improve?, Gary E. Miller, 2019/05/30
- Re: [gpsd-dev] Fwd: Re: gpsd for time sync on Ubuntu remix too hard for normals - how to improve?, Gary E. Miller, 2019/05/08
- Re: [gpsd-dev] Fwd: Re: gpsd for time sync on Ubuntu remix too hard for normals - how to improve?, Greg Troxel, 2019/05/09