From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 7 16: 6:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (CDR22-173.accesscable.net [24.138.22.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33E6637B479 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 16:06:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eA806SH09015; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 20:06:28 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 20:06:28 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to measure load on system CPUs ... In-Reply-To: <20001107134325.D5112@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * The Hermit Hacker [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