Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 16:43:47 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: Willliam Woods <WillliamW@netscape.net> Cc: majordom@FreeBSD.ORG, Bill Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Re: Weird CPU useage] Message-ID: <36602843.DFD3E0A1@tdx.co.uk> References: <19981128093738.9360.qmail@ww181.netaddress.usa.net>
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Willliam Woods wrote: > > Hmmm... I have a dual PP200 system here, I'll see if I get a similar result > > (not obviously noticed this to be honest... ;-) > OK, thanks. Everything ran just fine untill I compiled the new cvsup. I'm now running -current as of about 4 hours ago, and so far (fingers crossed ;-) - it looks OK... > > > Now this would be all fine and dandy, (faster is better right?), except > > I'm sorry? - Are you saying that the CPU running RC5 or a 'tight-loop' > > shouldn't produce that much heat? > > Not really, what I said about the loop was just to point out that it did not > seem like rc5 was the culpret in this case. OK - I thought you were complaining about the heat produced when just running RC5 ;-) - I was trying to make the point, just because it runs 'nice' (and only in otherwise Idle time) - it's still doing work, therefore still generates more heat (then the HALT / idle states it's replacing ;-) Regards, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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