[Vm-dev] [Pharo-dev] Reducing the activity of the image

[tim Rowledge]

On 09-02-2015, at 4:53 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> No.  The heartbeat is extremely cheap.  It is the idle loop that calls ioRelinquishProcessorForMicroseconds which in turn calls aioSleepForUsecs which calls select:
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Happy to be shown wrong. That means it most likely is morphic and/or any other tucked away processes. On a Pi it seems to be about 15% cpu time, so there is certainly some interest in reducing it!


tim
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