usleep(3) and nanosleep(2) have better granularity with CFS scheduler in RHEL6
Issue
- According to top, tcsh is taking up 10%+ CPU in loop with 1 ms sleep.
$ echo 'while 1; usleep 1000; end;' | tcsh -fs
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
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