Re: Beating system usage down

1999-06-28 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 12:34:06PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > Just for those that have been following the benchmarking thread, this > is exactly the same symptom set that FreeBSD demonstrates when loaded > by WebBench. The gotcha here is, again, the giant kernel lock. Rather than trying to

Re: Beating system usage down

1999-06-28 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 12:34:06PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > Just for those that have been following the benchmarking thread, this > is exactly the same symptom set that FreeBSD demonstrates when loaded > by WebBench. The gotcha here is, again, the giant kernel lock. Rather than trying to d

Re: Beating system usage down

1999-06-24 Thread Mike Smith
Just for those that have been following the benchmarking thread, this is exactly the same symptom set that FreeBSD demonstrates when loaded by WebBench. The gotcha here is, again, the giant kernel lock. > Greetings, > > A machine that I hold very close under my wing has been very contently >

Re: Beating system usage down

1999-06-24 Thread Mike Smith
Just for those that have been following the benchmarking thread, this is exactly the same symptom set that FreeBSD demonstrates when loaded by WebBench. The gotcha here is, again, the giant kernel lock. > Greetings, > > A machine that I hold very close under my wing has been very contently >

Beating system usage down

1999-06-24 Thread Anonymous
Greetings, A machine that I hold very close under my wing has been very contently chugging along for the last few months with practically no idle processor. However, I noticed that the CPUs are spinning a lot of cycles in the system area. CPU states: 5.5% user, 0.0% nice, 88.9% system, 4.0%

Beating system usage down

1999-06-24 Thread Dan Moschuk
Greetings, A machine that I hold very close under my wing has been very contently chugging along for the last few months with practically no idle processor. However, I noticed that the CPUs are spinning a lot of cycles in the system area. CPU states: 5.5% user, 0.0% nice, 88.9% system, 4.0%