From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 25 22:37:21 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E85B1065748 for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 22:37:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [IPv6:2001:4070:101:2::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35D3F8FC1A for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 22:37:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n4PMajEf042015; Tue, 26 May 2009 00:36:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id n4PMad0I042012; Tue, 26 May 2009 00:36:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 00:36:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar To: Peter Boosten In-Reply-To: <29229B06-6098-4488-9E9A-A5CFE6F9643B@boosten.org> Message-ID: References: <200905241315.n4ODFB96007801@mp.cs.niu.edu> <4A1A58FA.60303@boosten.org> <1932D812-03CF-48AF-A306-669C39862EB7@boosten.org> <29229B06-6098-4488-9E9A-A5CFE6F9643B@boosten.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Yuri , Scott Bennett , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, utisoft@gmail.com Subject: Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5% X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 22:37:21 -0000 > > Do you actually read back what you write: you're saying here that when a CPU > has only 10% utilization, it'll run slower than when performing at 100%... > i said it perform 10 times less work than when 100% utilized. exactly - read back again. > I'm giving up ;-) > looks like you just want to prove that i'm wrong, nothing else. so give up.