On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 10:19 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Aside from the Windows machine, the machine also runs several > paravirtualized Linux machines. While they are naturally running less > close to full capacity, it would appear (I ran "dd if=/dev/urandom > of=/dev/null") that I cannot saturate their CPU use above 15% either. > Unlike the Windows case, running top on the Linux machine actually shows > the CPU as only 15% in use, but this may as well be due to the > difference between the way Windows accounts for unused CPU and the way > Linux does, so I'm not sure what this means.
Your Linux VMs are probably not fully virtualized (para-virtualized?) and can know what the real CPU is doing. -- Oded ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
