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Subject: Re: CPU Hog
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:58:08 -0700
From: Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>

Someone wrote:

  > And yes, this problem is quite inconsistent. Its not always that I see 
  > my process in one of the top slots.

You need to debug!  My guess is that you have an uninitialized
variable somewhere so your timer thread sleeps a random number
of microseconds!
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