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Top Forums Programming Cpu usage Post 302262571 by Perderabo on Friday 28th of November 2008 03:11:37 AM
Old 11-28-2008
Your while loop does nothing but compute. It tries to use as much cpu as it can get. Outputing some data and sleeping do not use the cpu. I don't understand why you find any of this confusing.

As for avoiding cpu usage, you actually show two ways to do this. I don't understand why you then pose the question.

But there is nothing wrong with using the cpu if that is what your program needs to do. It's the kernel's job to ensure that all processes are allowed to run. The kernel will limit your process' cpu usage as it needs to. In general, a cpu bound process can hog the cpu for a few seconds, but its priority will be worsened as a result. It soon will have to least priority of any process and will find itself running only when the kernel can't find anything else to do.

At most, the only thing you need to do is to consider adding a nice() call like this:
nice(5);
This is a clue to the kernel to lower your process' priority.
 

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RTPRIO(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 RTPRIO(1)

NAME
rtprio, idprio -- execute, examine or modify a utility's or process's realtime or idletime scheduling priority SYNOPSIS
[id|rt]prio [id|rt]prio [-]pid [id|rt]prio priority command [args] [id|rt]prio priority -pid [id|rt]prio -t command [args] [id|rt]prio -t -pid DESCRIPTION
The rtprio utility is used for controlling realtime process scheduling. The idprio utility is used for controlling idletime process scheduling, and can be called with the same options as rtprio. A process with a realtime priority is not subject to priority degradation, and will only be preempted by another process of equal or higher realtime priority. A process with an idle priority will run only when no other process is runnable and then only if its idle priority is equal or greater than all other runnable idle priority processes. Both rtprio or idprio when called without arguments will return the realtime priority of the current process. If rtprio is called with 1 argument, it will return the realtime priority of the process with the specified pid. If priority is specified, the process or program is run at that realtime priority. If -t is specified, the process or program is run as a normal (non-realtime) process. If -pid is specified, the process with the process identifier pid will be modified, else if command is specified, that program is run with its arguments. Priority is an integer between 0 and RTP_PRIO_MAX (usually 31). 0 is the highest priority Pid of 0 means "the current process". Only root is allowed to set realtime or idle priority for a process. A user may modify the idle priority of their own processes if the sysctl(8) variable security.bsd.unprivileged_idprio is set to non-zero. Note that this increases the chance that a deadlock can occur if a process locks a required resource and then does not get to run. EXIT STATUS
If rtprio execute a command, the exit value is that of the command executed. In all other cases, rtprio exits 0 on success, and 1 for all other errors. EXAMPLES
To see which realtime priority the current process is at: rtprio To see which realtime priority of process 1423: rtprio 1423 To run cron(8) at the lowest realtime priority: rtprio 31 cron To change the realtime priority of process 1423 to 16: rtprio 16 -1423 To run tcpdump(1) without realtime priority: rtprio -t tcpdump To change the realtime priority of process 1423 to RTP_PRIO_NORMAL (non-realtime/normal priority): rtprio -t -1423 To make depend while not disturbing other machine usage: idprio 31 make depend SEE ALSO
nice(1), ps(1), rtprio(2), setpriority(2), nice(3), renice(8) HISTORY
The rtprio utility appeared in FreeBSD 2.0, but is similar to the HP-UX version. AUTHORS
Henrik Vestergaard Draboel <hvd@terry.ping.dk> is the original author. This implementation in FreeBSD was substantially rewritten by David Greenman. CAVEATS
You can lock yourself out of the system by placing a cpu-heavy process in a realtime priority. BUGS
There is no way to set/view the realtime priority of process 0 (swapper) (see ps(1)). There is in FreeBSD no way to ensure that a process page is present in memory therefore the process may be stopped for pagein (see mprotect(2), madvise(2)). Under FreeBSD system calls are currently never preempted, therefore non-realtime processes can starve realtime processes, or idletime pro- cesses can starve normal priority processes. BSD
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