Re: limiting CPU usage

FROM : Murat Konar
DATE : Fri Nov 30 21:05:15 2007

On Nov 30, 2007, at 8:36 AM, Alexander Cohen wrote:

> In that case, maybe you have an idea for me. I have a daemon that 
> runs and indexes all the images on a system. For each image, it 
> needs to open it up, get some info, close it and store that info. 
> This is very CPU consuming and can pretty much bring the system to 
> a halt after a while.


That doesn't seem right. Your daemon shouldn't be able to monopolize 
the CPU. Are you sure that's what's going on?

I wonder if what is really happening is that you're memory usage is 
getting out of hand and causing virtual memory thrashing.

_murat