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Date:      Mon, 25 May 2009 10:14:11 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        utisoft@gmail.com
Cc:        Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>, Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and  total CPU use ~5%
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905251013500.36458@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <b79ecaef0905250104p55c302cdh102202d1a06a389b@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <200905241315.n4ODFB96007801@mp.cs.niu.edu> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905242021440.33060@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <b79ecaef0905250104p55c302cdh102202d1a06a389b@mail.gmail.com>

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>> first - says that it's measure of CPU load
>> then - "or waiting for short-term events such as disk I/O" - which is NOT
>> measure of CPU load.
>>
>
> Er, what? Of course it is!
>
amount of disk I/O is a measure of CPU load? seems you are true expert ;)



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