From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 15 16:47:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tgd.net (rand.tgd.net [64.81.67.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8EC6637B405 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:47:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sean@mailhost.tgd.net) Received: (qmail 33777 invoked by uid 1001); 15 Aug 2001 23:47:31 -0000 Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:47:30 -0700 From: Sean Chittenden To: "Brian T . Schellenberger" Cc: Rick Hamell , Charlie & , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CPU Usage Message-ID: <20010815164730.A33372@rand.tgd.net> References: <01081518423700.00701@i8k.babbleon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <01081518423700.00701@i8k.babbleon.org>; from "bts@babbleon.org" on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at = 06:42:37PM X-PGP-Key: 0x1EDDFAAD X-PGP-Fingerprint: C665 A17F 9A56 286C 5CFB 1DEA 9F4F 5CEF 1EDD FAAD X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --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 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