Re: flexfax: Priority running too high.

[Tim Rice <tim@trr.metro.NET>]

On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Jim Whitby wrote:

> David Woolley wrote:
> > 
> > > Anyone have any suggestions?
> > > More info required, please, let me know.
> > 
> > Leave it at its current priority - the actual fax protocol is very
> > time critical.
> 
> Normaly I would, but *anything* that requires 100% cpu time is too much.
> For a maichne that is idling at less that 5% to jump to 100% and not be
> doing anything is too much priority.
> 

It's not a priority issue. It's correctly set to run at "Fixed Class" 
priority. 

Are you on UnixWare 2.1.3?

I just upgraded to 2.1.3 and now my faxgetty takes 50% of the available
CPU time as reported by "ps -A -ouser,pid,ppid,pcpu,vsz,time,tty,args".

Truss(1) shows pages of
read(1, 0x080473DC, 2047)                       = 0
poll(0x08045BC4, 2, -1)                         = 1
read(1, 0x080473DC, 2047)                       = 0
poll(0x08045BC4, 2, -1)                         = 1
read(1, 0x080473DC, 2047)                       = 0
poll(0x08045BC4, 2, -1)                         = 1

With faxgetty running rtpm(1M) shows 
      CPU:
    100 %u+s
      0 %w+i
     54 %usr
     46 %sys
      0 %wio
      0 %idl

With no faxgetty.
      CPU:
      1 %u+s
     99 %w+i
      1 %usr
      0 %sys
      0 %wio
     99 %idl

I hate it when OS upgrades break things. It worked good on 2.1.2
I'm going to recompile HylaFAX from scratch to see if that makes any
difference.

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