Bug#278931: dctc: bad cpu usage on Hyperthreading CPUs

[Eddy Petrisor]

Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote:
> reassign 278931 gnome-applets
> thanks
> 

As far as I understand, the applets is showing an average of the CPU 
load, which I think is ok. On the other hand, top showed the load taken 
by dctc as being 99% which would need some explanation.

> On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 09:28, Eddy Petrisor wrote:
> 
>>A friend of mine was using dcgui-qt and saw that dctc_master process
>>was using 99% of one of the CPUs. This was seen with top while the gnome
>>applet was showing 50% load.
>>thus I think that one of the CPUs was badly managed.
> 
> 
> There's a copule of things I don't understand here.
> 
> Dcgui-qt is completly different program than dctc.  Dctc is used by
> dcgui (which is written with GTK).
> 

I am sorry, I wrote dcgui-qt, I meant dcgui.

> And while we're at it, this bug should rather be filled against gnome
> applet that was showing wrong value, not dctc.

See comments above.
> 
> Reassigned to gnome-applets
> 
> 				Grzegorz B. Prokopski


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Regards,
EddyP
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