Re: [dapper] Memory and CPU usage

On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 05:54:57PM +1100, Sasha Tsykin wrote:
> Anthony David wrote:
> > I haven't used either of these tools, but they may be reporting different
> > memory figures (working set size vs total virtual memory used). Try using
> > the top command in a shell. That clearly by default breaks up the memory used
> > and should show you what mozilla-thinderbird-bin is using.
> They do report different things, I wasn't reading it properly, thanks.
> > Performance of many email clients is inversely proportional to the size of
> > the inbox. Is your's large?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> This still doesn't tell me what percentage of the cpu it is using
> (clearly not 0)

Most of the time a lot of programs go to sleep waitng for something to happen.
0% CPU for a process is common. It could be waiting for a signal that never
happens. In fact, strace the process and you could find it sleeping.

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