Re: runsvdir polling

From: <39066dd5_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 01:40:13 -0800

On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 04:10:07PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 21:12:27 -0800
> 39066dd5_at_gmail.com wrote:
>
> > I'm using runit as my primary init on Linux to good effect but have
> > noticed that it accumulates CPU time even while the system is idle. I
>
> How much time in how much uptime? Which process are you looking at with
> this accumulated time? Here's what I get:

runsvdir has used 1m 55s over a bit under 5 days. The runsv instances are way less (but then they have no reason to wake). Load average is 0.00.

> On my computer, none of this in any practical way affects my computing.
> I would guess on a more heavily used computer, any deleterious effects
> of runit time consumption could be solved by running runsvdir and all
> the runsv's with a positive nice value.
>
> In my opinion, by far the greatest benefit of runit is its simplicity,
> and there's no way I'd trade that for a theoretical efficiency benefit.

That sounds sensible on a desktop. In my case the motivation is to trim a source of power draw for an image that's going to run on a battery-powered device that will be awake but idle a lot of the time. Why Linux? Pretty much familiarity & tooling, if power is ok then I get to have my cake and eat it too.
Received on Sun Jan 15 2017 - 09:40:13 UTC