On Friday 30 March 2001 16:05, you wrote:
> Just noticed that my CPU usage was saturating at 100% and gtop shows me
> that cupsd is using 96% of it. Wow! I agree this is a powerful sw, but
> still...
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By what instrument are you measuring it? I know of one that will show you
99.9% CPU usage simultaneously on up to five processes! "Wow," said my
compatriates, "when can I have an SMP test machine?"
And I see also the frequent report of "kapm-idled sucking up my CPU cycles"
The truth is, SOME process is always waiting for an event or taking up CPU
time. Just until now the truth-in-reporting law has never been strictly
enforced. When you see an idle process hogging your CPU, look at its "nice"
number. If that is in the range of positive 16 to positive 20, it means you
are letting your computer run without you, and whatever process is
broadcasting a short message over the net or checking for a PIO event on a
very low priority is being given all that idel time to do it. Cups does
broadcast its presence if you have a queue on your own machine, even if you
have no network except 127.0.0.1. If you leave the machine on overnight,
what ELSE is going to take up time besides updatedb and makewhatis?
Civileme
