On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 02:46, Vineet Gupta <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Got the output given below from the V8 profiler. Note the first line
> which
> > indicates a memory range. In our case this is contributing to most of our
> > CPU utilization (95%)
> >
> > What is the meaning of this memory address range in the V8 output. Is
> there
> > a way of mapping this to our codebase?
>
> It's the address of the VDSO, the kernel gate so to speak. I wager
> that your application spent most of its time sleeping in epoll_wait(),
> i.e. was mostly idle. You can verify that with `strace -c`.
>

Hey,

I am working on the same project. I have a follow up question.

When we ran the application and monitored the cpu consumption using top, we
noticed the utilization to be greater than 50% (sometimes touching 100%).
Why would that happen if the application is idle?

Regards,
Satyam Shekhar


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