Jerome Vouillon wrote:

> You should try to run your program with the strace program, which
> traces system calls.  This will tell you why your program runs
> continuously rather than waiting for I/Os.

Yes, if I know what to look for. I've used strace numerous times, but 
haven't often been able to interpret the output. Any suggestions about that?

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