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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
