bloat - CPU load

Gustavo Niemeyer gustavo at niemeyer.net
Thu Nov 9 07:43:03 PST 2006


> Running 0.50rc1 'smart --gui'.  Didn't like the colors
> gkrellm showed me.
> 
> While two (large) rpm files are being downloaded, top shows me
> that smart is eating up close to 700,000 CPU cycles per second.
> 
> With my slow dial-up line, the downloads will take 2.5 hours.
> That's about SIX BILLION CPU cycles in total (used by smart
> merely while *displaying* the progress of these downloads).
> 
> As I said -- bloat.

Wow! Damd application! You should remove it from your system
and get something better right now.

-- 
Gustavo Niemeyer
http://niemeyer.net



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