At 01:15 08/07/2011, you wrote:
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,
Excuse me, but where (which maillist) and when did this mail thread
started? I have searched this maillist archive and freebsd-hackers
but no success.
TIA
--
-Chuck
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