xfce4-mailwatch-plugin pegging the CPU usage meter.

[Erik Harrison]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
> 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.

Of course you're right, and I'm a moron. Disregard.
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