memory usage of smart

[Mikus Grinbergs]

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 19:29:50 -0300 Martin Marques <martin at bugs.unl.edu.ar> wrote:
> El Jue 09 Feb 2006 16:59, Gustavo Niemeyer escribió:
> > > That didn't help much:
> > >
> > > root      6067 89.6 28.2 78136 71676 pts/1   R+   16:38
> > > 0:28 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/smart -o psyco=0 --shell
> > >
> > >
> > > root      6089 63.2 27.8 77184 70652 pts/1   S+   16:42
> > > 0:36 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/smart --shell
> >
> > You mean that 41% is not much? :-)
>
> Sorry, am I blind. I can't see that 41% :-)
>
> %MEM goes from 28.2 to 27.8 which isn't a 40%. I think you're looking at the
> CPU usage.

Haven't particularly noticed the memory usage.  But HAVE noticed
the CPU usage.  While apt-get is running, the CPU usage is in the
low single digits.  While 'smart --gui' download is running, the
CPU usage is in the mid-teens for a single file being transferred,
and 35% - 50% for five files fetched at the same time.  This is on
a 2 Ghz AMD !!  To me, that's a __heck__ of a lot of CPU cycles !!

mikus  (I'm on a dial-up <i.e., low-speed> line)