Fetch Softworks

CPU Usage (2 posts)

• Started 20 years ago by msc76
• Latest reply 20 years ago from Jim Matthews

• msc76 Member

  Using Mac OS X 10.2:

  I am currently doing two downloads. One with the "ftp" command line utility, and the other with Fetch (i just downloaded it). I notice that the unix cmd is downloading the file faster AND using *much* less cpu. Here is the output from "top":

  974 Fetch 4.0. 42.9% 8:03.40 3 85 164 3.86M 14.5M 11.8M 108M
  398 ftp 0.0% 0:35.93 1 10 27 188K 400K 544K 2.35M
  395 Terminal 5.9% 7:03.60 5 77 391 2.53M 11.1M 9.04M 51.4M

  I understand that it has a graphical user interface, so it's memory and cpu usage will be higher than a text only interface, but the difference is staggering.

  Is this just how efficient Carbon really isn't?

  Notice the CPU time: Fetch has downloaded more data using 35 seconds of cpu time, than Fetch has with over 8 minutes of cpu time.

  I guess a valid comparison would be between the data download thread of fetch compared with the ftp command.....

  any ideas?

  or should i look for a different ftp client with a native cocoa interface that will be more efficient...?

  Matt

  Posted 20 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  In this comparison Fetch is paying for some design decisions that made good sense under the Classic Mac OS but don't under OS X. I have been working to correct those issues, and expect further improvements in future releases.

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 20 years ago #