Non-CPU-intensive applications

A 'non-CPU-intensive' application is one that uses little CPU time. Examples include:

• Host measurements
• Network measurements
• Web crawling
• Network data access

Non-CPU-intensive applications can use chunks CPU time, as long as they do so infrequently.

A non-CPU-intensive application is treated specially by the client:

• The client maintains exactly one task for the application.
• The client executes this task whenever computation is enabled, bypassing the normal CPU scheduling mechanism.

Applications can be labeled as non-CPU-intensive in two ways:

• If the <non_cpu_intensive> flag is set in the project's configuration file, then all applications are non-CPU-intensive.
• Individual applications can be marked as non-CPU-intensive in their when they are created using xadd, or using the admin web interface.