DNOTIFY support and some timing

[Josef Weidendorfer]

On Wednesday 05 March 2003 00:25, Christian Esken wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 23. Februar 2003 22:56 schrieb Josef Weidendorfer:
> > Can you open konqueror in your HOME, and check the result of a
> > "while(true) do echo >> $HOME/log; done" in top?

Hi Christian,

unfortunately this bash loop is not a good benchmark. You can't distinguish if 
the system load is high because of signal delivery or because of process 
creation/deletion ("echo") :-(

>
> Yes I can.
>
> Sorry for not answering not earlier, but I am in the progress of setting up
> a new computer. Here's the results:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> New system: Athlon XP2220+ , SuSE8.1 with preinstalled KDE 3.0.3.
>
> CPU states: 23.7% user, 76.2% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
>
>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
> 20697 chris     25   0  1728 1728  1696 R    37.1  0.3   1:19 bash
>  1183 chris    -51   0  5532 5524  4116 S     2.9  1.0   1:40 artsd
> 20703 root      15   0   972  972   756 R     0.1  0.1   0:00 top
>
> Rest of the processes uses 0.0% CPU (No, I don't know why
> 37.1% + 2.9% + 0.1% = 100%). And I do not see any fam process,

The rest is taken by processes not shown any more as they terminated before 
top did the refresh.

> probably I just "forgot" to install/setup/whatsover the fam subsystem.

As root, can you do "rcfam start"?

>
> But basically this means in plain SuSE8.1 there is no FAM in KDE.
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> [...]

Josef