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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: 'sys' is consuming %50 of cpu
In-Reply-To: <199711052011.MAA27359@monk.via.net> from Joe McGuckin at "Nov 5, 97 12:11:32 pm"
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Joe McGuckin said:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Is there anything I can do to reduce the amount of cpu the kernel is using?
> With this many network connections, would I gain anything by making the TCBHASHSIZE
> larger?
> 
Not directly answering your question, but your machine is paging a bit.


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