Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:47:30 -0700 From: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> To: "Brian T . Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> Cc: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>, Charlie & <root@dambiec.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CPU Usage Message-ID: <20010815164730.A33372@rand.tgd.net> In-Reply-To: <01081518423700.00701@i8k.babbleon.org>; from "bts@babbleon.org" on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at = 06:42:37PM References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108150957000.25585-100000@heorot.1nova.com> <01081518423700.00701@i8k.babbleon.org>
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--45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > xosview shows up always as about 5%. You can run that to see whether top= is=20 > getting bad numbers or you just aren't keeping your CPU very busy with us= er=20 > processes. Doing something like ls -R / should cause some non-zero numbe= r to=20 > show up for ls after a while. >=20 > But low numbers are normal; system time won't show up in top, and FreeBSD= is=20 > efficient enough that if you aren't doing much then the CPU isn't doing m= uch,=20 > either. Granted you'll get the bonehead of the day award for this when you set the nice-ness to -20, an effective command to use to generate some artifical load/slowdown of the CPU is: cat /dev/zero > /dev/null ::grin:: -sc PS nice --20 cat /dev/zero > /dev/null really will freeze your system, don't ask me how I know, just trust me. --=20 Sean Chittenden --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> iEYEARECAAYFAjt7CewACgkQn09c7x7d+q0JHwCfYUORoICXGxfl1BicMZk7aLf3 vlUAmwdtsmA/cUjWnrzA14ghESW/4ngT =ktYv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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