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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:22:19 +0100
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Am Freitag 27 Februar 2009 11:18:18 schrieb Pavel Machek:
> > 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?

The classical example is Seti@HOME. Any monitoring tool like umtsmon
or kwifimanager.

	Regards
		Oliver