Exactly! Processes that are waiting for IO or whatever, sleep, they don't
chewup cycles ...
--- "Bruce F. Press" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm sorry, but I just can't buy that. Those of you on desktops
> may not be able to tell, but if you're on a laptop the fan spins
> up when something is chewing the CPU cycles. This happens when
> something slips into an infinite loop (like netscape!) or when
> compiling (fair enough). But a daemon in a wait, or blocking
> on a select should never do this.
>
> Bruce
>
> Civileme wrote:
> >
> > On Friday 30 March 2001 16:05, you wrote:
> > > Just noticed that my CPU usage was saturating at 100% and gtop shows me
> > > that cupsd is using 96% of it. Wow! I agree this is a powerful sw, but
> > > still...
> > >
> > > =-=
> > > kk1
> > >
> > > ____________________________________________________________________
> > > Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
> > By what instrument are you measuring it? I know of one that will show you
> > 99.9% CPU usage simultaneously on up to five processes! "Wow," said my
> > compatriates, "when can I have an SMP test machine?"
> >
> > And I see also the frequent report of "kapm-idled sucking up my CPU cycles"
> >
> > The truth is, SOME process is always waiting for an event or taking up CPU
> > time. Just until now the truth-in-reporting law has never been strictly
> > enforced. When you see an idle process hogging your CPU, look at its
> "nice"
> > number. If that is in the range of positive 16 to positive 20, it means
> you
> > are letting your computer run without you, and whatever process is
> > broadcasting a short message over the net or checking for a PIO event on a
> > very low priority is being given all that idel time to do it. Cups does
> > broadcast its presence if you have a queue on your own machine, even if you
> > have no network except 127.0.0.1. If you leave the machine on overnight,
> > what ELSE is going to take up time besides updatedb and makewhatis?
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