On May 7, 2009, at 10:35 PM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Timo Sirainen <[email protected]> wrote: > If some process has been eating 100% CPU for hours, there should be > some > kind of a notification that it's happening. Like a small icon could > appear to gnome panel and clicking it would show the process details > and > allow to kill it. > > The following are relevant to this discussion > http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/11628 (similar idea)
Somewhat relevant, yes, but I think people talking in that page don't understand correctly the root cause of the problem. Linux scheduler is good enough nowadays that even lots of processes all eating 100% CPU don't make the system unusable. The problem comes from when some process eats all the memory and starts forcing other processes to swap. I just tested this actually. I created 100 processes running an infinite loop, causing the system load on a 2 core machine to hit 100. It was a bit sluggish, but still perfectly usable. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
