Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Oct 2007 16:19:43 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle |
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On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 15:32:53 -0700 (PDT)
> And I wonder if the same kind thing is effectively happening here: > the code is written so that it *tries* to sleep, but the rounding of > the clock basically means that it's trying to sleep using a different > clock than the one we're using to wake things up with, so some > percentage of the time it doesn't sleep at all!
we're talking about a timer that (normally) is 5 seconds.
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