Denys Vlasenko wrote: > I don't understand. > > Waiting properly and consuming a lot of CPU time are different things. > Waiting processes should use no CPU at all, unless they are poorly coded > and wait for something by periodically polling: "did it happen?" "did it > happen?" "did it happen?"... > -- > vda
I was very confusing to me as well. I was thinking in the same lines as you are now and couldn't imagine that a "waiting" process would consume so much CPU time. I did an strace -p on both processes the night before and got the same results the following morning; just a single line of output with what I quoted in my previous message. I ran across this article: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=13782271 - Ken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Strace-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/strace-devel
