From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 17 20: 2:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po4.wam.umd.edu (po4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 886C237B424 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 20:02:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac1.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.141]) by po4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA22312; Thu, 17 May 2001 23:02:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA27763; Thu, 17 May 2001 23:02:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA27754; Thu, 17 May 2001 23:02:20 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac1.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 23:02:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Kris Kennaway Cc: "Jon O." , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD benchmark question In-Reply-To: <20010517163055.A58216@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Also, note that the CPU usage and load averages may be calculated > differently in FreeBSD vs Linux (different method of weighting the > average, etc). Just because ps shows the process using 75% CPU, that > doesn't necessarily mean it's only running 75% of the time; the > weighted average just might not have caught up yet. The weighting is > done to give some stability to the numbers; if they were only > "instantaneous" CPU usage figures then they'd be oscillating around > wildly. > OK, I didn't know that you could run it like that using nice to start it. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message