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Date:      Tue, 7 Nov 2000 20:06:28 -0400 (AST)
From:      The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to measure load on system CPUs ...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011072006100.1687-100000@thelab.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <20001107134325.D5112@fw.wintelcom.net>

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On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> * The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> [001107 11:58] wrote:
> > 
> > How accurate is top considered for determining spare CPU cycles?  Is there
> > a better way of determinig if I need faster CPUs?
> 
> Top is quite accurate.  But sometimes it's not the CPU that's a
> problem, it could be an incorrectly coded program busy-waiting on
> some event that's causing a lot of CPU to be used.  A faster
> processor might help, but not if you're at 100% because of busy
> looping.

PostgreSQL is the only thing that runs on that server ... :)  I hope its
not that ...



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