Messages in this thread | | | From | "David Schwartz" <> | Subject | RE: Why so must idle time ? | Date | Fri, 7 Jul 2000 09:49:39 -0700 |
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> 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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