excessive gettimeofday calls (idle cpu usage) in last gamma

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa ragnar at linalco.com
Tue Jul 9 09:30:37 UTC 2002


On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 02:22:36AM -0700, Jim Benson wrote:
> Ragnar,
> 
> Which version of Zurgle, and which version of Squeak?

Last of both, Zurgle10b and gamma #4913

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ragnar Hojland Espinosa" <ragnar at linalco.com>
> To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 2:15 AM
> Subject: excessive gettimeofday calls (idle cpu usage) in last gamma
> 
> 
> > 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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> >
> 
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Linalco "Especialistas Linux y en Software Libre"
Tel: +34-91-5970074 Fax: +34-91-5970083



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