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On 14 February 2007 18:55, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 14 February 2007, Grant wrote: |
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> > I just sat through about 5 minutes of 100% CPU usage and a thrashing |
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> > hard disk. I ran top and it reported 0% idle CPU, but the list of |
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> > processes totaled maybe 20% CPU usage. How can this be? |
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> > - Grant |
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> Most likely you only looked at user cpu % and neglected to list the |
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> system and niced times as well. |
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> p.s. golden rule: ps lies. top lies. free lies. |
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> Don't believe the readings they give, rather interpret them in context. |
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!!! Golden rule of system administration: All these tools are notoriously |
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wrong. |
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Uwe |
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A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: |
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http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 |
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Proof of concept of a TSP solver for KDE: |
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http://www.SysEx.com.na/epat-0.1.tar.bz2 |
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