> not really... first, we must define what busy is :-) I have an > impatient daughter standing at my elbow
speaking of busy... > Processes aren't always bottlenecked by CPU, and the well behaved > ones will let go of CPU when they're waiting on something else. > Say that it's a database startup-- program comes up, reads config, > makes sure that all is cool, then starts the process of opening > disk files. For the next few jiffies, it's basically waiting on > the disk bus and doesn't need the CPU, so it's only using 2 or 3 > percent. Ok, that's what i was looking for, that it's often not the cpu the bottlenecks. Thanks for the info, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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