There is some timer thread between the image and the vm that ticks every millisecond, that is the cause. I don't know what it does but it is apparently needed.
Anyway, that is how I understood it from Igor and Eliot, long ago. So basically, the VM is always slightly busy. > On 09 Feb 2015, at 21:11, Norbert Hartl <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have an installation where a pharo powered hardware is used in a closed > case. Over time that collects quite some heat. One reason for this is that > the pharo vm is taking approx. 6% CPU all the time. The only thing that > happens is network/sockets. I suspended the ui thread in the image but on > this platform it doesn't help. > Are there any tweaks to lower the polling and the activity of the image/vm > even more? > > thanks, > > Norbert
