[nos-bbs] CPU consumption change after 4(?) days

[George (Skip) VerDuin]

Greetings all,

I find the following interesting and not (so far) a problem:
Jnos is today in her 4th day of continuous operation since being
started.
My platform is FC-5 - jnos has truly little work to do and is generally
idle.

At start, CPU consumption was normal - once in a while jnos would
contribute less than a percent (in 3-sec sample period).
Today, jnos contributes a little less than 30% as user, 60(+)% as
system.
The change was probably in the past 24-hr period.
Say 1/2 dozen other processes contribute a few percent so the total is
say 96% CPU useage.

The remaining processes seem to have little trouble taking CPU for
response to their own needs, so there is small perceptible change in
over-all response time from the workstation.  The only change I've found
is on the KDE desktop switch-over.  I have a 6-desktop configuration and
at random times on only selected application windows is the change
delayed over the normal say 1/4 second response time.  The worst delay
might be 8 seconds.

Thus my question to all:  Am I alone in this effect?

I'm going to allow jnos to continue this way for a few more days to see
if it is a precursor to failure of some sort.
Let me know if there is something I should look for?
JNOS simply doesn't release the CPU so it can sleep?
I have no idea how I might have initiated this condition.

73
de Skip k8rra k


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