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Re: one process occupying the whole cpu



On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
<kjetil1001@gmail.com> wrote:
> At 16.10 this afternoon I started a process via a shell script  which
> is nso resource-hungry
> that absolutely  nothing else on the computer (amd64 laptop, cpu with
> two cores) got done .
> Even the clock stands frozen at 16.10  for many hours!
>
> I thought that with a modern, time-sharing OS like linux that would not be
> possible!  but that is obviously wrong.

There's something terribly wrong if the clock stands still...
Otherwise, one process occupying almost all the CPU time is normal.


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