YONETANI Tomokazu wrote: > Usually echo is a shell-builtin, while `nice' is an executable, > and `nice -n20 echo' might also run a non-builtin version (/bin/echo), > which makes stats look differently.
Mkay, that explains the difference: ~:# while true; do /bin/echo "foo" > /dev/null; done 27.5%Sys 51.3%Intr 21.3%User 0.0%Nice 0.0%Idl But it doesn't explain why is interrupt load so high. At least for me ... yet ... ;). -- Hasso
