bloat - CPU load

Basil Chupin blchupin at tpg.com.au
Thu Nov 9 07:56:49 PST 2006


Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
>> 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.


Aaah, hold on here for a moment, thanks. According to the Consumer 
Protection thingy he should also ask for a refund. Don't forget that!

Cheers.


-- 
"If the Iranians were to have a nuclear weapon
they could proliferate."

              George W. Bush     21 March 2006




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