On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Sunil Agrawal <sunilagra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If my entire Node.js program is the following
>
> setInterval(function() {}, Infinity)
>
> 'top' shows it consumes 15-20% CPU
>
> If I change it to
>
> setInterval(function() {}, 100000)
>
> it drops down to < 1% CPU consumption.
>
> Any insights what's going on?
>
> TIA,
> Sunil
setInterval() in node.js follows what browsers do: intervals >
2,147,483,647 milliseconds are treated as $smallest_timeout intervals
(= 1 ms in node.js.)
In other words, `setInterval(function() {}, Infinity)` is identical to
`setInterval(function() {}, 1)`.
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