top performance sucks (cpu cycles of course) :)

David Burrows (snadge@gemcorp.com.au)
Fri, 6 Feb 1998 22:24:21 +1000 (EST)

This is 2.1.85 compiled UP, on a 486dx33 with 8mb acting as a masquerading
ppp gateway for a small lan (with caching nameserver too <g>).
Everything is working perfectly for once as it should. I have this
kernel also working on two P133s compiled with pgcc 1.01. Anyway Check
this out on the 486..

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
1323 root 19 0 588 588 460 R 0 7.6 8.6 0:04 top

Of course this agrees with Heisenberg's uncertainty principal, at least in
the manner you cannot analyze something without affecting the experiment.
But 7.6%!? How is this value calculated? It doesn't seem very efficient,
or is it?

Regards,

Dave.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu