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Date:      Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:15:05 -0400
From:      Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To:        Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: wierd cpu usage numbers
Message-ID:  <20021017111505.A48126@blackhelicopters.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021017105950.T3698-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>; from culverk@yumyumyum.org on Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:03:04AM -0400
References:  <20021017105950.T3698-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>

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On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:03:04AM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I was just compiling kde3 on my home pc, and I noticed some
> interesting behavior. It seems that whenever there's ANY real heavy disk
> activity, the "system" cpu usage % number (in top and in systat -vm)
> skyrockets from 0.8% to around 50-70%. I was wondering which of the recent
> changes could have caused this... also in systat, the increase of the
> system % number seems to correspond with zfod, cow, and prcfr numbers
> jumping. Any ideas?

Please see the big friendly message in all capital letters in
/usr/src/UPDATING:

NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT 5.0-CURRENT IS SLOW:
	....

This is a result of what's explained there.

==ml

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