[Xastir-Dev] Re: Xastir-dev Digest, Vol 68, Issue 8

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Owen DeLong wrote:

> OK... Maybe I'm confused, but it seems to me that 1/57.9 (1 second out of
> every 57.9 seconds) would be closer to 2% of the available CPU.  Either
> it's I/O bound (most of it's CPU usage is getting charged to other processes
> via Interrupt Service routines for TOP and your CPU usage reporter is using
> some other form of accounting to capture true CPU usage) or something else
> doesn't add up.

I believe it's a short-term average versus long-term average sort of
thing.  With regard to "top" and the two ways of looking at the
numbers, I just ignore it.  Close enough for government work...


> > Developer's CVS Xastir (should be available tomorrow via anon CVS)
> > is using one second of CPU time for every 57.9 seconds of real time,
> > with multiple high-speed feeds attached.  CPU usage reported by top
> > is usually 0.0% or 0.1% for all threads.

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