[Xastir-Dev] Re: Re: CPU still too busy for the wrong reasons

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:24:17AM -0800, a Mr. Richard Feyler of Fort Lee, New Jersey <hacker at tc.fluke.com> writes 'Dear Rosanne Rosannadanna':
> On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Tom Russo wrote:
> 
> > You hit the nail on the head.
> >
> > At nexttime = 2 all is well.  On my 700MHz PIII laptop xastir hovers around
> > 0.1% most of the time, on the 300MHz PII desktop it seems to like being around
> > 1-2%.
> >
> > At nexttime = 1 it eats 90-97% on either machine.
> 
> Ouch!
> 
> I wonder if that should be reported to the FreeBSD guys?

Once isolated in a simpler test program, perhaps.

> It'd be cool is someone could test that with Linux and FreeBSD (and
> others?) on the same hardware, but I doubt there are many people
> running multi-boot Linux/BSD systems.  

*snicker* -- Until this afternoon my dual Xeon machine at work was a dual-boot
linux/BSD machine, but since I hadn't booted Linux since two days after buying the machine well over a year ago, I wiped the linux partition to make room for something else this afternoon.

> You're usually running one or
> the other, kind'a like Vi/Emacs (and we all know which one is best,
> don't we?).

Best to keep religion off this list, I think.

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