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Recover from a runaway netstat process
Authored by: randalla on Aug 23, '04 03:48:38PM

Many Classic apps do this just by how they were written. I have the same issue with FileMaker Pro 4 when run under Classic.



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Recover from a runaway netstat process
Authored by: geohar on Aug 23, '04 04:02:32PM

Classic Apps that do this are written with a polling event model which rapidly checks if any event from the OS is pending, and sits there in a tight loop checking until such an event occurs. Unfortunately, the tight loop is pretty efficient for the CPU to execute and therefore consumes a high percentage of the CPU.

Modern even models on Mac OS work in such a way that the OS will not schedule the app until there is an event pending, and they therefore don't take CPU doing so. Additionally, they can be paged out totally until an event occurs.



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