|
Hylafax Mailing List Archives
|
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
[Date Index]
[Thread Index]
Re: [hylafax-users] 4.1.4 and high faxgetty cpu usage
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 09:01:23AM -0700, Lee Howard wrote:
> On 2002.10.21 05:18 Giulio Orsero wrote:
> >I installed 4.1.4 on a Red Hat 6.x and 7.x machines and faxgetty would
> >start
> >using much cpu time some time after it was started (no fax sent or
> >received
> >in the meantime).
>
> Note that 4.1.4 faxgetty polls for lockfiles. So if disk activity is
> extremely heavy this could be a problem.
I'd expect polling for lock files to be disk/io-bound and not cpu bound.
This would indicate that even if it polled the disk lots more, and
the disk is heavily used, the process would be blocked on disk-io (and
not show cpu activity as a result)
just a thought.
-joe
--
Innovation Software Group, LLC - http://www.innovationsw.com
Custom Internet and Computer Solutions
Linux, UNIX, Java Training
____________________ HylaFAX(tm) Users Mailing List _______________________
To subscribe/unsubscribe, click http://lists.hylafax.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi
On UNIX: mail -s unsubscribe hylafax-users-request@hylafax.org < /dev/null
*To learn about commercial HylaFAX(tm) support, mail sales@hylafax.org.*
