Well, it then looks like it is going through this rapid loop of giving
up processing power and asking for it again immediately, and on my
system there is plenty of spare capacity so it gets its thread back
again. Perhaps this is what is generating all the masses of system
calls as the balance
It polls the serial port continually :-(
Dave
-Original Message-
From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On
Behalf Of Steve Rooke
Sent: 03 January 2010 12:00
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather
An idle Windows machine allocates 50% of its resources to a task when it starts
up. This shows up as 50% CPU utilization. A second Heather will show as
around 100% total utilization (50 % each). These usage numbers are totally
bogus.
Heather VERY periodically returns it's time slot to
