Subject: Re: screenblank consumes nearly all CPU power
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/16/2001 18:17:31
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:06:42PM +0100, Trond Endrestøl wrote:
> Hi, all,
> 
> Is it normal for screenblank to consume almost 95% of the CPU?
> I can't find anything explaining this behaviour in the man page.
> This is on a SPARCstation IPC running NetBSD/sparc 1.5, and
> screenblank is run with "-d 120 -e 0.0".

Can you try to ktrace it to see if it's looping over some syscall ?

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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