Re: GURU needed: Linux vs. FreeBSD

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 5 Nov 1998 21:07:56 +0000 (GMT)


> 0.04user 3.62system 0:50.13elapsed 7%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
> 0inputs+0outputs (69major+15minor)pagefaults 0swaps
>
> Why are my times so much longer but the CPU so much smaller? the SCSI
> system is on a nice PCI bus with nothing else bothering it...

The first one is showing Linux waiting for the controller I/O a long time
and the I/O or controller being slow. So Linux slept most of it (but thats
also time that other processes could use), the IDE one was a faster transfer
but took a lot more machine resources.

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