excessive gettimeofday calls (idle cpu usage) in last gamma

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa ragnar at linalco.com
Tue Jul 9 09:15:30 UTC 2002


Leaving a zurgled squeak running idle overnight, this morning I saw it
chewing a constant 21.4% of CPU time which is obviously very bad on a dual
1.2 GHz.   So I stopped it and started a plain squeak, left it idle
minimized and its still chewing up far too many cycles, at around a minimum
4.5% with periodic ramps to 10% and < 30%.

A breif look over the processes show that the overnight one was doing 20886
gettimeofday syscalls per second while the new one is currently doing 6503 /
sec

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