<html><head></head><body>Nope, it waits for a signal, and python's implementation wakes up every few milliseconds. I would not see a way to work around that without risking infinite freezes.<br>
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P.s. yes, it's clearly not optimal.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Am 23. März 2015 11:21:36 MEZ, schrieb Alvaro Gamez <alvaro.gamez@hazent.com>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi there<br /><br /></div>I'm using offlineimap on a mobile device (Nokia N900) in IDLE mode to sync with gmail.<br /></div>Since I've started using it, I've noticed a significant drop in battery life.<br /><br /></div>By using powertop and top, I've deduced that offlineimap, even though is waiting for the server to send out new emails via IDLE protocol, it's still consuming CPU<br /><div><div><div><div><br />Top causes for wakeups:</div>Wakeups-from-idle in 10 seconds: 1314<br /><br />Top causes for wakeups:<br /> 2.6% ( 500) <interrupt> : DMA<br /> 1.6% ( 308) <interrupt> : gp timer<br /> 1.0% ( 199) python2.7 : schedule_hrtimeout_range (hrtimer_wakeup)<br /><br /></div><div>I have no other python2.7 executable running, and when I stop offlineimap this line dissappears, so I am positive this wakeups are due to some sleep code inside offlineimap.<br /><br
/></div><div>Is there anything that can be done about this? Thanks! (I'm not subscribed to the list, so please keep me in CC).<br /></div><div><div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>
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