Rapid once deployed too

[Howard Wolowitz]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>

...
> Unless you can show me a combined output where processes are -NOT- in
> sleep mode (say, a paste from 'top'), and your load is that low (not
> possible), the basis of your claim is pretty much meaningless.  It is
> simply not possible to have even one process actually -doing- something
> computationally and keep the load that low.  That's a totally false metric
> you're looking at.  Most of those are *clerk sessions, and unless you're
> using WAITKEY, which goes into a polling loop and should suck up whatever
> percentage of a single CPU is free, most of those processes are in sleep
> probably 90%+ of the time because frankly people type a -lot- slower than 
> a
> CPU can run.
>
> mark->

No offense taken Mark.  I'm sure you know a lot more about this stuff than I 
do.

Here is a current paste from top:

last pid:  3580;  load averages:  0.24,  0.36,  0.27                   11:
1415 processes:1387 sleeping, 7 running, 19 zombie, 2 onproc
CPU states: 17.1% idle, 26.5% user, 39.8% system, 16.5% wait,  0.0% sxbrk
Memory: 1024M phys, 507M max, 79M free, 466M locked, 1692M unlocked, 1953M

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES  STATE   TIME  COMMAND
 3567 stertris  23    4  1116K  1116K onpr    0:00  rclerk
  171 root      23    4  1184K  1184K onpr    0:00  top
 3315 astmanny  23    4  2488K  2488K run     0:00  dclerk
 3508 root      23    4  1532K  1532K run     0:00  fct_vtpd
11233 root      23    4  1532K  1532K run     0:00  fct_vtpd
28338 mayhjw    23    4  1316K  1316K run     0:00  rclerk
 1943 headbran  21    4  2856K  2856K run     0:05  dclerk
 3570 dcikevw   11    4  3912K  3912K run     0:00  pcl6
 3545 racmata   -4   14  1184K  1184K run     0:04  rreport-copy
 3290 root      51    4   992K   992K sleep   0:00  deliver
  494 root      51    4   836K   836K sleep   0:00  biod
  317 root      51    0  1424K  1424K sleep   0:01  lpsched
26232 root      51    0  1080K  1080K sleep   0:08  submit
  293 root      51    0   600K   600K sleep   0:00  dlpid
  466 root      51    4  1548K  1548K sleep   0:31  _upsd
  585 root      51    0  1424K  1424K sleep   0:00  ncsa_httpd
  425 root      51    0  1032K  1032K sleep   0:28  deliver
  335 root      51    4   884K   884K sleep   0:00  rusersd
  329 root      51    0   880K   880K sleep   0:00  portmap

Please tell me what that tells you.

Howie