Chris Knadle wrote: > hellanzb is an automated Python Usenet news reader; automated decoding of > Usenet news can definitely be a process that can generate load.
Sure, but as I said the Load I am interested in is idle, hellanzb had nothing in it's download or processing queues. > The other two programs sound like they're related to an IR remote, so I > don't know how those could be culprits. I suspect irxevent, which allows the remote to control the mouse cursor, the other is just for launching arbitrary programs. > Try gleaning the LKML [Linux Kernel Mailing List] concerning the recent > change in scheduler to the CFS ["Completely Fair Scheduler", which frankly is > an oxymoron]. That was the umbrella subject of threads where developers > posted output statistics about memory page blocking/locking and various wait > states as they tested the new scheduler for 2.6.23. O'reilly Digital Media has a series on Myth where they liked the deadline scheduler but reported no great performance boost. My plan for now is to look carefully at what each of these programs were actually doing while supposedly idle in the hope of developing a methodology from that data. -- __________________________________________________________________ Garrison Hoffman Codefix Consulting http://codefix.net/ 914.930.6268 718.210.3445 800.691.8674 _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Dec 5 - Open Source Show and Tell Jan 2 - TBD Feb 6 - DBUS Mar 5 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using Linux
