On 8 Feb 1999, Mike Romberg wrote:
> >>>>> " " == Robert M Hyatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > It is probably 'xosview' itself...
>
> Yea. As MOLNAR Ingo pointed out in this thread, there is a pretty
> big hit when xosview reads the proc filesystem for memory stats. This
> is why it only attempts to do this once a second or so. So, xosview
> is in effect watching it's own contibution to the processor state.
>
> When xosview is not visible or iconified, it suspends reading from
> the proc filesystem and the blips should not be there. Of course, you
> wont be able to see this with xosview :).
>
> Mike Romberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
>
I'd call this a "low-impedence probe" if you know what I mean.
:)
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