xfce4-mailwatch-plugin pegging the CPU usage meter.

[Erik Harrison]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
> I've got the xfce4-mailwatch-plugin svn r5653 installed, and on
> the surface, it appears to be working fine.  I've got four
> instances configured checking IMAP mailboxes on four different
> servers.
>
> The odd thing I've noticed is that the xfce4-mailwatch-plugins
> completely peg the CPU usage at 100% for 8-10 seconds each time
> it checks the IMAP mailboxes.  I'm running an AMD Athlon 64
> 3200+ clocked at 2GHz, and it just shouldn't take that many
> clock cycles to check an IMAP mailbox.
>
> AFAICT, the each instance of the mailwatch plugin will suck up
> as much CPU as it can the whole time it's "awake".
>
> Any ideas on what might be wrong?

Probably nothing. Anything doing IO will peg the CPU meter to 100% the
entire time it's working.

$ while true; do touch randomfile; rm randomfile; done

CPU meter hits 100%, but system shouldn't be appreciably slowed down,
and there is no complex computation going on. Do you experience any
slowdown of your system, or your network that might indicate real
trouble with the mailwatcher?

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