Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-25 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/25 Peter Boosten : > Chris Rees wrote: >> 2009/5/25 Wojciech Puchar : > first - says that it's measure of CPU load > then - "or waiting for short-term events such as disk I/O" - which is NOT > measure of CPU load. > Er, what? Of course it is! >>> amount of disk I/O

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-25 Thread Peter Boosten
Chris Rees wrote: > 2009/5/25 Wojciech Puchar : first - says that it's measure of CPU load then - "or waiting for short-term events such as disk I/O" - which is NOT measure of CPU load. >>> Er, what? Of course it is! >>> >> amount of disk I/O is a measure of CPU load? seems you

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-25 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/25 Wojciech Puchar : >>> first - says that it's measure of CPU load >>> then - "or waiting for short-term events such as disk I/O" - which is NOT >>> measure of CPU load. >>> >> >> Er, what? Of course it is! >> > amount of disk I/O is a measure of CPU load? seems you are true expert ;) > Do

Re: What do ASCII codes 128-159 stand for?

2009-05-25 Thread Morgan Wesström
> Lars Eighner wrote: >> That is all the ASCII codes there are. ASCII is a a seven-bit standard. > >> There is no such thing as ASCII codes from 160-255. ASCII is a 7-bit >> standard. You cannot express 160 in seven bits. > > >> No, because there are no ASCII codes between 128 and 159. ASCI

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
first - says that it's measure of CPU load then - "or waiting for short-term events such as disk I/O" - which is NOT measure of CPU load. Er, what? Of course it is! amount of disk I/O is a measure of CPU load? seems you are true expert ;) ___ freebs

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
first - says that it's measure of CPU load then - "or waiting for short-term events such as disk I/O" - which is NOT measure of CPU load. You are mistaken. I think what you are referring to is the percentage of no i'm not. doing lots of I/O and little CPU load produces high "load average

Re: What do ASCII codes 128-159 stand for?

2009-05-25 Thread Ronny Mandal
Yes, you're right; ASCII is a seven bit code. Only E-ASCII employs the 8th bit to widen the addressing space available, thus it can define more characters in binary. /RM ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-25 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/24 Wojciech Puchar : >>    From the glossary (p. 630) of _The_Design_and_Implementation_of_the >> _FreeBSD_Operating_System_ by McKusick and Neville-Neil: >> >>        load average  A measure of CPU load on the system.  The load >> average >>                in FreeBSD is an average of the nu

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Yuri wrote: > Look below: load over 7 and no processes take much CPU. > > Yuri > > 7.2-PRERELEASE, 32-bit on i7-920. > > > last pid: 93192; load averages: 7.68, 6.27, > 4.61

Re: What do ASCII codes 128-159 stand for?

2009-05-25 Thread Michael David Crawford
Lars Eighner wrote: That is all the ASCII codes there are. ASCII is a a seven-bit standard. There is no such thing as ASCII codes from 160-255. ASCII is a 7-bit standard. You cannot express 160 in seven bits. No, because there are no ASCII codes between 128 and 159. ASCII is a 7-bit s

Re: What do ASCII codes 128-159 stand for?

2009-05-25 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sun, 24 May 2009, Kelly Jones wrote: "man ascii" defines the ASCII codes from 0-127, That is all the ASCII codes there are. ASCII is a a seven-bit standard. and the various ISO-8859-x tables define the ASCII codes from 160-255 No. There is no such thing as ASCII codes from 160-255. A

Re: What do ASCII codes 128-159 stand for?

2009-05-25 Thread Ronny Mandal
Maybe you're looking for this? http://www.petefreitag.com/cheatsheets/ascii-codes/ This one is quite specific, though... http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm Regards, Ronny Mandal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-25 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sun, 24 May 2009 20:22:37 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar wrote, *again* without attribution: >> From the glossary (p. 630) of _The_Design_and_Implementation_of_the >> _FreeBSD_Operating_System_ by McKusick and Neville-Neil: >> >> load average A measure of CPU load on the system. T

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