[imp] imp causes high load ?

Viljo Viitanen vviitane+mail.imp@mappi.helsinki.fi
Wed, 07 Feb 2001 19:07:20 +0200 (EET)


Tim Ansell <mithro@senet.com.au>:

>   PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE   TIME    CPU COMMAND
> 15032 nobody     1   0    0 3632K 2360K cpu0   61:04 20.75% wvWare
> 15030 nobody     1   0    0 3632K 2360K run    61:21 20.52% wvWare
>  9275 nobody     1   0    0 3840K 2248K cpu1  332:54 20.35% wvWare
> 14829 nobody     1   0    0 3632K 2360K cpu2   67:56 20.16% wvWare

The processes are in an (infinite) busy loop, due to some bug (I have the
same problem with ancient mswordview).

I'm not really sure how to deal with that automatically, processor time
limit perhaps (ie. patch wvware to set itself a limit).

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Viljo Viitanen