On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 00:43, andi payn wrote: > 4. While running a similar set of services, FreeBSD may be using less > background processing time. Or maybe not. I definitely see significantly > lower CPU usage (idling under X, FreeBSD shows about 2-10% CPU, linux > about 15-35%). However, this may just be an artifact of linux's > notoriously bad reporting, or the fact that I'm using the O(1) kernel > and preemptible kernel patches, or maybe something stupid some GNOME > applet is doing because I configured it wrong under linux; who knows....
Check with top to see which processes are using the CPU. For me, 9 times out of 10, it's the X server itself taking up cycles for doing nothing. It won't do it right after a fresh boot, but some program along the way usually triggers the siphoning of the CPU usage. Charles Ulrich -- http://bityard.net _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
