Active waiting?

[Sebastian Spaeth]

Am 23. März 2015 18:27:00 MEZ, schrieb Alvaro Gamez <alvaro.gamez at hazent.com>:

>On my previous email I've found keepalive timer to be the worst
>offender.

Well, IMAP IDLE will always prevent the phone from sleeping deepnand long as it is supposed to detect a server message instantaneously.

>I've never done any python threading programming and don't know much
>about
>offlineimap threading architecture, so I don't know if this is
>possible,
>but could this simple patch solve the issue?
>

>             self.ui.debug('imap', 'keepalive: waiting for timeout')
>-            event.wait(timeout)
>+            time.sleep(timeout)
>             self.ui.debug('imap', 'keepalive: after wait')

This would ALWAYS wait 'timeout' seconds rather UP TO 'timeout' seconds when we need the connection again. So no :-).

Sebastian
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