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On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 18:45:10 -0600 (CST), Andrei Ivanov wrote:
>example, starting Netscape. For example, on my computer CPU load is 5-8%
>at most, when I'm not doing any compilations/etc.
>If a process eats up 95% of CPU it means it's crashed. Some processes just
>don't die quietly when they crash, but go into loop instead, therefor
>eating all the CPU.
2:00pm up 20 days, 12:57, 3 users, load average: 1.06, 1.04, 1.00
47 processes: 43 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 85.7% user, 14.2% system, 84.9% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 63444K av, 60292K used, 3152K free, 12492K shrd, 7196K buff
Swap: 132072K av, 3312K used, 128760K free 11448K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
12974 rc5 20 19 440 412 344 R N 0 84.9 0.6 26620m rc5des
Ah, so many cycles wasted. *sigh*
>What are consequences of that? Anyone?
>I'd figure heat that builds up will eventually become a problem
>overheating your CPU, which will result in errors and crashes.
No consiquences. As you can see, my machine has happily run for 20 (so
far), the whole time processing rc5 keys for www.distributed.net. Happy as
a clam and the room it is in doesn't have the best ventilation.
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