excessive gettimeofday calls (idle cpu usage) in last gamma

Jim Benson jb at speed.net
Tue Jul 9 09:22:36 UTC 2002


Ragnar,

Which version of Zurgle, and which version of Squeak?

Jim

----- 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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> Linalco "Especialistas Linux y en Software Libre"
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