RE: Why so must idle time ?

From: David Schwartz (davids@webmaster.com)
Date: Fri Jul 07 2000 - 11:49:39 EST


> I have a machine running web server. It has a lot of httpd's loaded and
> most of them are sleeping. The load average is always around 7-13, so I
> wonder why the CPU usage doesn't reach ~100%. It wastes CPU time or
> simply there is something top does not show ?

        Two words, "disk I/O".

        DS

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