> 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


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