I'm sorry, but I just can't buy that. Those of you on desktops may not be able to tell, but if you're on a laptop the fan spins up when something is chewing the CPU cycles. This happens when something slips into an infinite loop (like netscape!) or when compiling (fair enough). But a daemon in a wait, or blocking on a select should never do this. Bruce Civileme wrote: > > 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... > > > > =-= > > kk1 > > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 > 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
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