[Info-vax] HIBertanting DECthreads process accrues CPU time.

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

VAXman- wrote:
> In article <422e7e27-0a8a-45a6-a721-b6cf3addedb6 at u17g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>, John Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> writes:

>>Is it really accruing CPU time at an alarming rate? Or is the usually
>>reliable mechanism for reporting CPU time falling victim to odd
>>behaviour in this case, and causing unnecessary alarm?
 
> Reality or spectre, seeing an otherwise *IDLE* process accruing CPU time
> is not acceptable to me and is likely to cause alarm with customers.

I am not sure at all how different system charge for the CPU time
needed for paging.  It would seem fair to charge for the page out
time, even when one is idle.  That should be fairly small in CPU
time, though.

-- glen