is magicdev evil?

[Owen Taylor]

On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 17:41, Tommy McNeely wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 17:14:25 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 16:57, Tommy McNeely wrote:
> >> [quoted text muted]
> > 
> > Basically:
> > 
> >  A) If magicdev is eating 25% of your CPU, something is going wrong,
> >     and you shoudl file a bug so we can fix it. It isn't supposed to do
> >     that.
> 
>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
> 16744 tommy     18   0  5664 5664  4852 S     7.5  0.5   0:01   0 magicdev
> 16749 tommy     17   0  1152 1152   888 R     0.3  0.1   0:00   0 top
> 13056 root      15   0  295M  39M  9320 S     0.1  3.9   2:50   0 X
> 13227 tommy     15   0 16628  16M  8428 S     0.1  1.6   0:11   0 gnome-termina
> 
> 
> 
> what about 7.5-11% ? I mean I cant get it to go back to 25% for some
> reason :)

If magicdev consistently appears at the top of your top, then that's a 
bug. (Please provide information as detailed in the last mail)

What I'd expect is that it doesn't appear at all in top, except perhaps
popping up occasionally with 1-2% cpu if the sampling gets lucky.

Regards,
						Owen