[Haskell-cafe] Need pointer to explain CPU usage

[Erik Hesselink]

Could it be idle time garbage collection [0]? You can try turning it
off with '+RTS -I0'.

Erik

[0] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.6.3/html/users_guide/runtime-control.html#idp38498400

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Robin Palotai <palotai.robin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I have a tiny scotty-based application, which when compiled and
> started in profiling mode, consumes 10x CPU it does in normal mode.
>
> Interestingly, if I fire a request on the app, CPU usage drops to
> minimal after finishing the request for a while. But after a few
> minutes it starts consuming 10x CPU again.
>
> First I would have suspected scotty, however collecting time profiling
> info with -p, -P or -Pa doesn't reveal much. That still not rules
> scotty out however.
>
> To make matters worse, I inspect strange time profiling tick count I
> can't explain - the .prof file says "2 ticks @ 1000 us", while the
> application was clearly running idle for a good few seconds.
>
> Any ideas what am I missing?
>
> Thanks,
> Robin
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