On Jul 7, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Hartmann, O. wrote:
> This is quibbling. On heavy loads on networ, disk et cetera, isn't there 
> always and also a CPU bound load?

No.  Properly written software blocks when waiting on network or disk I/O, and 
doesn't sit there spinning in a busy-wait consuming CPU until it actually gets 
more work to do.

See select(2), kqueue(2), and friends.

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck

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