aaron kulkis cmiqlkx91hotpopcom roger hayter wrote message roger hayter writes grateful advice investigate problem installed opensuse 103 p5ab motherboard aladdin v chipset 512mb sdram cyrix mii300 processor runs slowly somewhat garbled graphics ati radeon 7000 use x windows without x windows run level 3 load average booting done various database things settled 050 even start socalled safe mode remove loadable modules apart needed drive ide interface load average never falls 020 first case cpu usage 60 idle 30 si context switching second cpu 95 idle load average varies 016 022 assume driver high priority kernel process fundamental show ps loop occupying processor time certainly machine even sluggish hardware warrant using older hardware router running suse 101 load averages 01 02 clearly vague bug report anyone suggest pin instance find cpu spending time matter interest almost completely explained resources used top little programme increases load average 02 25 significant values wait context switching testing running another console erroneous belief would make little difference sure didnt used great consumer resources top si context switching si servicing software interrupt hi servicing hardware interrupt jcgcstdsrnradiocom sun feb 24 103010 2008 messageid 47b1d9975020505srnradiocom date tue 12 feb 2008 113831 0600 michael barnes mimeversion 10 kashif salman cc perl beginners subject lstat uses contenttype textplain charsetutf8 contenttransferencoding 7bit kashif salman told 02122008 0931 feb 12 2008 651 michael barnes wrote john w krahn told 02112008 0347 pm michael barnes wrote thought using lstat get size file file comparisons see lstat always returns list thirteen values references find appear require assignment 13 values variables even though want use one really put devinomodenlinkuidgidrdevsize atimemtimectimeblksizeblocks lstatfilename get size variable populated file size ultimate goal check size huge files copied folder get size come back three times row indicating file move playing file could use file test operator size filename uses stat instead lstat really need lstat could like lstat filename size _ john wonderful wild variety answers thank much matters whether use stat lstat folder used dropbox environment perl script examines folder presence file takes appropriate action moving needs removing dropbox folder problem occurs user places large 300mb file dropbox folder script processes file may yet script loops back around sees file still attempts process still processed first iteration desire get file size wait get file size compare thought file returned size three times row could assumed file completely copied dropbox folder could processed im trying keep basic yet functional possible thanks various inputs keep coming educational michael someone pointed isnt good idea check file size three times conclude done processing using lsof check file still use another process try process perl script im new kid beginners forum welcome ideas options forgiving ignorance would mind giving example would lsof thanks michael tue 05 aug 2008 172921 0500 opensuse 103 kernel problem p5ab motherboard top blame