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[Bug 1231585] Re: ubuntuappmanager has a thread that is polling at 2Hz

 

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Title:
  ubuntuappmanager has a thread that is polling at 2Hz

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Using today's phablet image on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus I observed that
  one of the threads of ubuntuappmanager is polling every 500ms.  I am
  filing this bug in a vain attempt to try and reduce system wakeups and
  hence reduce battery consumption.

  Tracing this with strace, I see:

  sudo strace -f -p $(pidof ubuntuappmanager)
  Process 477 attached with 8 threads
  [pid  1238] ioctl(13, BT819_FIFO_RESET_HIGH <unfinished ...>
  [pid   602] futex(0x412b4cac, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647 <unfinished ...>
  [pid   601] epoll_wait(20,  <unfinished ...>
  [pid   602] <... futex resumed> )       = 0
  [pid   477] ioctl(13, BT819_FIFO_RESET_HIGH <unfinished ...>
  [pid   602] clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC,  <unfinished ...>
  [pid  1239] ioctl(13, BT819_FIFO_RESET_HIGH <unfinished ...>
  [pid   606] ioctl(13, BT819_FIFO_RESET_HIGH <unfinished ...>
  [pid   604] clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC,  <unfinished ...>
  [pid   603] write(6, "KeyEvents", 9 <unfinished ...>
  [pid   604] <... clock_gettime resumed> {17918, 745990561}) = 0
  [pid   603] <... write resumed> )       = 9
  [pid   604] epoll_wait(5,  <unfinished ...>
  [pid   603] clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC,  <unfinished ...>
  [pid   602] <... clock_gettime resumed> {17918, 745624350}) = 0
  [pid   603] <... clock_gettime resumed> {17918, 746326255}) = 0
  [pid   603] write(7, "KeyEvents", 9 <unfinished ...>
  [pid   602] clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC,  <unfinished ...>
  [pid   603] <... write resumed> )       = 9
  [pid   602] <... clock_gettime resumed> {17918, 746600913}) = 0
  [pid   603] epoll_wait(9,  <unfinished ...>
  [pid   602] epoll_wait(16,  <unfinished ...>
  [pid   604] <... epoll_wait resumed> {}, 16, 500) = 0
  [pid   604] clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {17919, 248248861}) = 0
  [pid   604] epoll_wait(5, {}, 16, 500)  = 0
  [pid   604] clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {17919, 749866293}) = 0
  [pid   604] epoll_wait(5, {}, 16, 500)  = 0
  [pid   604] clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {17920, 409625813}) = 0
  [pid   604] epoll_wait(5, {}, 16, 500)  = 0
  [pid   604] clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {17920, 911945151}) = 0

  where pid 604 epoll_waits on fd 5, which is an event poll fd and is
  timing out every 500ms.  Perhaps this blocking epoll_wait could wait
  for longer rather than continuously waking up the system every 2
  seconds?

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