Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 17:52:22 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Taming Netscape Navigator? Message-ID: <20020305165222.GC705@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <200203051407.g25E7WF10805@dungeon.home> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0203011634360.2796-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> <3C7FB956.18428.510B414@localhost> <20020301201318.C3880@over-yonder.net> <200203051407.g25E7WF10805@dungeon.home>
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On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:07:32AM +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: > On Saturday, 2nd March 2002, "Matthew D. Fuller" wrote: > > Now, about your assertion that dual CPUs are more wonderful than wonderful, > consider the effect of adding a cpu usage limiting scheduler that caused > processes that were using 50% or more of the cpu to sleep 1 clock tick out > of 2. Wouldn't that be just like two cpus at half the speed? No it wouldn't. You are forgetting about the expense of context switches. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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