Well, 9% cpu power did not scare me much, for that was more or less what I've got with 4.7 when idling. I moved over to 5.0 because of a memory leak related to linux binaries, reported by some sources (those that are really a pain in the neck and refuse to reboot servers once in a while because of bad code, hehehe).
But you can't expect new features to consume less CPU power can you ? Specially when so MANY changes have been made, so many newer features, specially when the sources for this system have exploded in size. I know code size doesn't matter (I said CODE, fellows ! hehehe), since M$ has a lot of code and we see what they've got, but in this case we know the good tradition of the *BSD coding. In this special case I'd say that amount of code IS significant, and if you compare the growth of code VS the CPU it is using when idling EVEN WITH HLDS loaded, I think it is reasonable. Specially considering my configuration is half of what you have: SINGLE p3 550 MHz, 256 MB of ram and 6 GB SCSI hd, running one single hlds process (peak at 65% of CPU power with 12 ppl playing). Honestly ? I would encourage you to give 5.0-current a try. You know that a couple of months DO make a lot of difference when it comes to freesoftware, specially FreeBSD. Download/install 5.0-DP2 and cvsup the sources. make it all (the make buildworld/installworld and kernel did not change a bit, but LINT did) and then run your favorite applications. []s At 08:35 AM 12/5/2002, you wrote:
but 9% when idling? Hmm.. this is my top. 54919 csadmin 10 0 63380K 57136K nanslp 1 80:24 1.03% 1.03% hlds 50789 csadmin 10 0 67076K 61568K nanslp 0 304:29 0.98% 0.98% hlds 55114 csadmin 10 0 62224K 56764K RUN 0 121:28 0.05% 0.05% hlds This is the system running. 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0: Sun Dec 16 02:25:40 CET 2001
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