From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 5 8:52:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from post-11.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B14E637B41E for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 08:52:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-11.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16iIAr-000IYm-00 for chat@freebsd.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2002 16:52:25 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 1569113040 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 17:52:25 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id 1B98522593; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 17:52:22 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 17:52:22 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Taming Netscape Navigator? Message-ID: <20020305165222.GC705@raggedclown.net> References: <3C7FB956.18428.510B414@localhost> <20020301201318.C3880@over-yonder.net> <200203051407.g25E7WF10805@dungeon.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200203051407.g25E7WF10805@dungeon.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:07:32AM +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: > On Saturday, 2nd March 2002, "Matthew D. Fuller" wrote: > > Now, about your assertion that dual CPUs are more wonderful than wonderful, > consider the effect of adding a cpu usage limiting scheduler that caused > processes that were using 50% or more of the cpu to sleep 1 clock tick out > of 2. Wouldn't that be just like two cpus at half the speed? No it wouldn't. You are forgetting about the expense of context switches. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message