On Wednesday, April 17, 2002, at 10:34  Uhr, Cees de Groot wrote:

> Is there already something in there that pushes CPU usage on Linux 
> down? I
> just announced a commercial Squeak hosting service on 
> comp.lang.smalltalk
> (someone asked for it over there, I'll be happy to repost the message 
> here),
> but I don't want to have 30 CPU eating VM's on my box ;-).

I don't know about Linux in particular, but one thing that's usually 
helped me is simply increasing the idle-process's sleep-time (image-side 
mod).

Marcel