cullip@unc.cs.unc.edu (Timothy Cullip) (01/20/90)
I just got Xoper off the network and was running it while I had my ray tracer running in the background. Nothing else was currently running (other than normal operating system stuff like devices). Xoper reported that my raytracer only got about 40% of the cpu use (cpu activity 100%) while input.device was sucking up about 40% also even though I wasn't doing any inputing. My question is why is input.device such a cpu hog? Can anything be done to give more time to a cpu intensive program like my raytracer? Bumping up its priority doesn't seem to help much, I don't want its priority high with respect to other CLI tasks, I would just like input.device to not use so much cpu time. Just what is input.device doing other than handling the keyboard and mouse? Tim Cullip