Hannu.Martikka@lut.fi (Hannu Martikka) (04/22/91)
Does anyone know why is /dev/null (the prosess) eating so much cpu? Does everybody use it so much....:) -- Regards from Goodi ______________________________________________________________________________ Internet: Hannu.Martikka@lut.fi / \ Bitnet : GOODGULF@FINFILES // \\ \-\-\-\-\-\-\ oh5lhh Hannu Martikka, Punkkerikatu /// \\\ | on 70cm 7C 36, 53850 Lappeenranta,SF /// | \\\______________|_________________________ Tel. 953-251446 | :) Lappeenranta University Of Technology | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
jal@ACC.FLINT.UMICH.EDU (John Lauro) (04/23/91)
Does anyone know why is /dev/null (the prosess) eating so much cpu? Does everybody use it so much....:) null is used when the node has nothing else to do. What I dislike, is it's also used if the reason the node has nothing else to do is because it's constantly waiting for disk I/O because there is too little memory. (An overworked node will actually show small uptimes... as in 0.01. That can be extremely missleading)