[Vorbis] Re: [Icecast] cpu usage for ices and oggenc

[Paul Martin]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 10:43:50AM +1000, Michael Smith wrote:

> Whilst I don't have a definite answer, it's very common for certain types of 
> application to cause 'top' (and any tool that works in a similar way) to 
> drastically under-report cpu usage. 

It's threaded programs under a kernel that does threads in the kernel
(Linux 2.6 does; 2.4 doesn't). The current procps tools (especially top
and pstree) don't know about kernel threads.

icecast, ices2 and xmms all use threads.

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