Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 23:02:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: "Jon O." <jono@microshaft.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD benchmark question Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105172301500.27301-100000@rac1.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010517163055.A58216@xor.obsecurity.org>
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> Also, note that the CPU usage and load averages may be calculated > differently in FreeBSD vs Linux (different method of weighting the > average, etc). Just because ps shows the process using 75% CPU, that > doesn't necessarily mean it's only running 75% of the time; the > weighted average just might not have caught up yet. The weighting is > done to give some stability to the numbers; if they were only > "instantaneous" CPU usage figures then they'd be oscillating around > wildly. > OK, I didn't know that you could run it like that using nice to start it. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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