Even when doing nothing, Octant burns cpu cycles

[scothis]

What steps did you take and what happened:

Running the election MacOS app, close the octant UI and observe the resource utilization for octant. The background process is consuming between 120-160% of a cpu core. This is pure backend load even when there is no client connected.

What did you expect to happen:

I'd expect the backend to use some CPU cycles just to keep the caches alive for when the front end connects. Maybe 5-10% of a CPU core is acceptable.

Environment:

• Octant version (use octant version): 0.17.0
• Kubernetes version (use kubectl version): 1.17
• OS (macOS 10.15, Windows 10, Ubuntu 19.10 etc): macOS 11.2.1 (Rossetta)

[wwitzel3]

I'm going to close this resolved, but please re-open if you are still seeing Octant use a large amount of CPU even when minimized to the system tray.