2010/6/6 <da...@lang.hm>: > as an example (taken from this thread). > > system A needs to wake up to get a battery reading, store it and go back to > sleep, It does so every 10 seconds. But when it does so it only runs the one > process and then goes back to sleep. > > system B has the same need, but wakes up every 10 minutes. but when it does > so it fully wakes up and this allows the mail app to power up the radio, > connect to the Internet and start checking for new mail before oppurtunistic > sleep shuts things down (causing the mail check to fail) > > System A will last considerably longer on a battery than System B.
Exactly, thanks for pointing out the specific example :) ~Vitaly -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
