gpg-agent timer tick

[Alan Jenkins]

Alan Jenkins wrote:
> Werner Koch wrote:
>
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>> I assigned bug 871 to it.
>>   
> Thanks.  OK, I think I understand your points.
>
> I think the best thing would be if the timer tick could be changed to 
> 10 seconds (by default).  It's a one line change; you said you thought 
> it'd be OK, and its also what openssh-agent does.  I don't know of any 
> difference between ssh-agent and gpg-agent that means the latter needs 
> to wake up 5 times as often.
>
> If you do that, I don't think it's worth rounding the timeouts to the 
> nearest second.  It wouldn't really help; you can only save 0.1 
> wake-ups a second - and if you manage to do that, it's probably 
> because you're sharing wake-ups with something running at 1 wakeup a 
> second.  Going from 1.1 to 1.0 isn't much of an improvement.
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Did that make sense?

Thanks,

Alan