OSX processor usage

[William Preston]

Hi Jonathan, hi list

On  Sep17, 2008, at 06:26, saggau wrote:

>
> I ran into a (possible) bug in OS X 10.5.4, which I tracked-down to
> poll() never timing out in the cmd file worker thread on that
> platform.  It looks like poll() always returns 1, whether there is
> data on the pipe or not.  A quick fix that shouldn't break Nagios on
> other platforms and which doesn't require any configure checking of
> poll() is to manually pause if poll() returns 1 with an empty pipe.


yes, this is a known problem.
the continuous polling drives the load to 100%...

I posted a simple patch for this to
http://blog.netways.de/2008/08/15/nagios-unter-mac-os-x-installieren/
(the article is in german, but there is an english comment with the  
patch).

@list:
I vaguely seem to remember there was a reason why select() isn't used.

Was this a solaris issue?


William

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