Hello.

Maximiliano Curia wrote:
Doing an strace I see a lot of SIGALRM which, I presume, are waking it
up all the time. Could it be?
Yes. For the apps that do the polling
in a tight loop, this doesn't hurt
however, as they'll fall asleep again
immediately.
Clipper calls the interrupts that sleep,
very infrequently, that's why SIGALRM
makes it difficult to release the CPU
in that case.
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