Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 19:31:33 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: processes only consume system time ???? Message-ID: <XFMail.000921193133.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <39CA2B9C.DB675E0D@we.lc.ehu.es>
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On 21-Sep-00 Jose M. Alcaide wrote: > This happens with freshly built -CURRENT, on an uniprocessor machine: > > $ cat loop.c > main() { while (1); } > $ time ./loop > [ wait for ten seconds... ] > ^C > real 0m9.982s > user 0m0.000s > sys 0m5.689s > > Uh? Other utilities, such as top(1) and systat(1) show that 100% of time > is accounted to the system. I imagine that this is related to SMPng... Yes. This is a FAQ. The accounting is screwed up, and some of the statistics are wrong. Your system is scheduling processes close enough to normal that you shouldn't have any problems. > Any clues? > > Cheers, > -- JMA -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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