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From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
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On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 03:24:13AM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote:
> 
> Not to flog a dead horse, but scheduling seems to be very broken this month.
> 
> I am subjectively watching my smp box do a:
> 
>  'cd /usr/ports/www/apache2 ; make all' in one window, and
> 
>  'cd cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql40-server/ ; make all' in another window,
> 
> and most disturbingly a 'top -S' in a 3rd window reporting 42.63% idle on
> cpu0, 39.50% idle on cpu1.
> 
> It just doesn't seem right to me.
> 

You failed to mention which scheduler you are using.

-- 
Steve