xfce4-mailwatch-plugin pegging the CPU usage meter.

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-10-16, Erik Harrison <erikharrison at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

No, it won't.  Even when active, it should spend 99.99% of it's
time blocked waiting for network I/O.  It should use virtually
no CPU.

-- 
Grant