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Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 15:33:58 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Wed, 15 May 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 10:00:25AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> > Wed May 15 09:58:22 PDT 2002
> > cpu  98583 0 8082 204779 9328
> >
> > It looks very constant, not sure if it should be otherwise.
>
> Not quite constant, just slowly varying:
>
> Wed May 15 11:30:47 PDT 2002
> cpu  2095183 0 158967 263950 20705

Well, with the amount of memory you have in the machine
I expect the time spent in idle and iowait to be fairly
limited during a repetitive kernel compile ;)

If everything "looks" normal in top and vmstat things
should be ok.

regards,

Rik
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