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- From: mbr@bellcore.com (Mark Rosenstein)
- Subject: Where does the CPU go, when its not doing nuthin' (gr_osview)
- Message-ID: <MBR.92Dec17063936@ponape.bellcore.com>
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- Reply-To: mbr@bellcore.com (Mark Rosenstein)
- Organization: Bellcore, Morristown, NJ
- Date: 17 Dec 92 06:39:36
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- When looking at gr_osview, I have a program that uses about 50% of the
- cpu (indigo R4000 elan running 4.05F). The CPU wait line in gr_osview
- is empty, so if the cpu isn't waiting, why doesn't my program get 100%
- of the CPU?
-
- I guess the less naive way of putting this is: What factors aren't captured
- between the CPU Usage and CPU wait?
-
- [The program in question reads in a 16k chunks of stuff off of disk, messes
- around with them and writes them out. All to local disk.]
-
- Thanks.
-
- Mark.
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