Is Screen a resource hog?

[Mong]

Is this normal..?

PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
1044 paul      58   0  1716K  1392K RUN    969:12 99.02% 99.02% screen

Edit...

Even if I do $nice screen

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
 3322 paul      84  10  1716K  1392K RUN      2:33 99.07% 99.02% screen

M.

[Luckeh!!!!]

where did you get that information from ?

[Mong]

Just type "top" at your command line...

M.

[MT]

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
16823 root      15   0  1396 1336  1068 S     0.0  0.6   0:18 screen
21639 tom       15   0  1408 1408   916 S     0.0  0.7   0:00 screen

[Structural Integrity]

perhaps it the same as the "system idle process" I have here under win2k. It's also on 99% CPU usage but does nothing else than keeping the system alive.

[Mong]

Apparently this is very uncommon, and certainly shouldn't happen every time.

M.