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 ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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