Yes tim, buy better/faster hard drives and/or put more memory in your
machine.
this 60% idle is the time your proc is waiting for the hard drive reading
data.
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From: "Tim Samshuijzen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 4:03 PM
Subject: idle CPU
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> Hello,
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> We're running a large database on a dedicated server.
> When I look in the list of active processes, I notice that a
> complicated query takes up no more than about 30 % of CPU.
> During this time the CPU is more than 60 % idle.
> Is there some way to speed up the process?
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> Tim Samshuijzen
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