On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua@gmail.com> wrote:

i just wonder, what takes so much CPU time, even if it completely idle...

The basic issue is the idle process that spins doing a yield instead of blocking.  Basically, instead of ioRelinquishProcessorForMicroseconds the VM should enter a blocking call that will terminate when the next delay or i/o event occurs.  This requires rearchitecting delays because currently the VM polls for delay expiry.  For the VM to block while a delay is active there must be a delay callback/signal/interrupt etc that has the side-effect of terminating the blocking call.
 


4831-  NBCog        4.8
51519- NBCog        3.5

if i kill a UI process, the load goes down to 2.5-3 % ...
still too much.

i would like to know how we can minimize this.
The reason why i concerned is straightly pragmatic: extending battery life..

i found that if i run completely on battery.. it depleting quite fast
with VM running (and i don't do anything just coding, i.e not running
benchmarks, but more thinking and typing).

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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko.



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best,
Eliot