Can you start it with -N and see if you can reproduce the problem. It may be cron and the different ways the two OSes handle processes.
On Aug 17, 4:29 pm, ecafracs <rowan.mccam...@gmail.com> wrote: > I install web2py on Windows and OSX and start it, enter the admin > password and wait for a few moments to let web2py settle down to idle. > > Behaviour I'm seeing is: > * On Windows web2py uses virtually no CPU cycles if it's doing nothing > * On OSX it uses anywhere between 1-3% of CPU, when in theory it > should be doing nothing > > Can anyone shed any light into why this would be? > > Thanks in advance.