Re: [PATCH 0/11] VMI / Paravirt bugfixes for 2.6.21

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 13:25 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > hmm stolen time could even be useful without virtualization; to a large
> > degree, if cpufreq reduces the speed of your cpu you have "stolen
> > cycles" that way... I wonder if this concept can be used for that as
> > well...

> 
> I don't see the point, frankly.

I mean for showing the sysadmin that his system has spare capacity left.

right now top shows 50% in use (at say 600Mhz) while the 2.8Ghz
processor obviously isn't even nearly half loaded.


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