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		NotYourLawyer 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is my CPU usage always 100%? That’s an awful lot of effort to deal with an issue that was basically just cosmetic. I suspect at some point the author was just nerd sniped though.

dougg3 6 months ago [–]

To be fair, other non-cosmetic stuff uses the CPU percentage. This same bug was preventing fast user suspend on the OLPC until they worked around it. It was also a fun challenge.

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