linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] [RFC] Proposal for optimistic suspend idea.

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Date:	Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:45:06 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, arve@...roid.com,
	markgross@...gnar.org, Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	amit.kucheria@...aro.org, farrowg@...ibm.com,
	"Dmitry Fink (Palm GBU)" <Dmitry.Fink@...m.com>,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, khilman@...com,
	Magnus Damm <damm@...nsource.se>, mjg@...hat.com,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] [RFC] Proposal for optimistic suspend idea.

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:16:39AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 15:56 -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I do think my idea is neat, so we can spend/burn time debating it, but
> > if you have viable suggestions (and honestly, I think rewriting all of
> > userland isn't viable) on solving the larger problem, I'm all ears.
> > 
> And yet, rewriting all of userspace is exactly what Android did, they
> had the perfect opportunity of doing it right, but they came up with the
> worst solution ever.
> 
> As for my laptop, I really would like the firefox guys to add a
> 'feature' that stops JS on non-visible tabs and preferably also drop all
> data after a little while.
> 
> firefox is the #1 wakeup thing on my machine and its mostly invisible
> (minimized) and when its not, I can only stare at a single tab anyway.

Oh yeah, same here.

I even went so far as to do

kill -STOP $(pidof firefox-bin)

at times simply because the thing was getting out of control. And to be
honest, the moment a thinner browser comes out with authors who actually
do care about not bloating the crap out of it, I'm jumping on it.

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