Java - why does my JVM use CPU when idle?

Have you ever wondered why an otherwise idle Java process sits there in an endless loop scheduling a thread, calling poll, regularly eating a small amount of CPU?

I always used to think that this was because of things like the garbage-collector and the JIT compiler, but it's not...

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( Sep 29 2006, 03:00:00 PM CEST ) Permalink