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Bug introduced in 10.0 and persisting through 11.2
RunProcess is new in 10.0

Comparing the cpu usage of

RunProcess[{"sleep", "10"}]

and

Run["sleep 10"]

The mathematica kernel spikes up to 100% cpu usage in the case of RunProcess during the time of "external calculation", while it stays calm with Run.

Why is that? And how do I avoid this behaviour?

Mathematica version: 11.1.1

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    $\begingroup$ I can confirm this. redhat/mma11.1. RunProcess connects to the process stdout , while Run does not. I don't see why that should take so much cpu though. $\endgroup$
    – george2079
    Commented Oct 10, 2017 at 15:12
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    $\begingroup$ Confirmed on OS X too. $\endgroup$
    – Szabolcs
    Commented Oct 10, 2017 at 15:31
  • $\begingroup$ Did you report this to Wolfram Support? If you haven't, please do so, and let us know what they said. It smells like a bug to me. $\endgroup$
    – Szabolcs
    Commented Oct 13, 2017 at 7:57
  • $\begingroup$ @Szabolcs: Yes I did. The report was forwarded to their developers. I'll post an answer when the issue is resolved. $\endgroup$
    – image357
    Commented Oct 13, 2017 at 8:10
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    $\begingroup$ Confirmed on Windows 10, mma 11.1; CentOS, mma 11.2. $\endgroup$
    – Turgon
    Commented Oct 20, 2017 at 7:34

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more of curiosity than anything else I tried this:

p = StartProcess[{"sleep", "10"}]
While[ProcessStatus[p, "Running"]]
ProcessStatus[p]
ReadString[p, EndOfBuffer]
ProcessInformation[p]

you get essentially the same result with no noticeable CPU hit. (the kernel does not show up on the linux top list)

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