[Xastir-Dev] Re: Xastir-dev Digest, Vol 68, Issue 8
Curt Mills, WE7U
hacker at tc.fluke.com
Fri Aug 15 11:51:15 EDT 2003
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Owen DeLong wrote:
> OK... Maybe I'm confused, but it seems to me that 1/57.9 (1 second out of
> every 57.9 seconds) would be closer to 2% of the available CPU. Either
> it's I/O bound (most of it's CPU usage is getting charged to other processes
> via Interrupt Service routines for TOP and your CPU usage reporter is using
> some other form of accounting to capture true CPU usage) or something else
> doesn't add up.
I believe it's a short-term average versus long-term average sort of
thing. With regard to "top" and the two ways of looking at the
numbers, I just ignore it. Close enough for government work...
> > Developer's CVS Xastir (should be available tomorrow via anon CVS)
> > is using one second of CPU time for every 57.9 seconds of real time,
> > with multiple high-speed feeds attached. CPU usage reported by top
> > is usually 0.0% or 0.1% for all threads.
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