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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
- Subject: Re: Where does the CPU go, when its not doing nuthin' (gr_osview)
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 21:57:54 GMT
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- In <1hsmkiINNf05@rave.larc.nasa.gov> s.j.scotti@larc.nasa.gov (Stephen J. Scotti) writes:
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- | >| When looking at gr_osview, I have a program that uses about 50% of the
- | >| cpu (indigo R4000 elan running 4.05F). The CPU wait line in gr_osview
- | >| is empty, so if the cpu isn't waiting, why doesn't my program get 100%
- | >| of the CPU?
- | >|
- | >| I guess the less naive way of putting this is: What factors aren't captured
- | >| between the CPU Usage and CPU wait?
- | >|
- | >| [The program in question reads in a 16k chunks of stuff off of disk, messes
- | >| around with them and writes them out. All to local disk.]
- |
- | >It's hard to say just where it is waiting. Running osview may be
- | >helpful, as would 'timex -s yourprog'. My guess is that it is indeed
- | >waiting for the disk part of the time.
- |
- | I have been running a structural analysis finite element code on a 4d35 with
- | similar problems. I was the only user on the machine but could get no more
- | than about 60% of the CPU. I too attributed this to disk accesses but when
- | we upgraded our memory from 16mb to 48mb, I found that I could get about 95%
- | of the CPU!
- | I wonder if Dave Olson could explain that?
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- More buffering of files, and therefore less time spent waiting
- for the disk, is my *guess*. It could also be that you were
- doing a lot more paging with less memory. Both timex -s and
- osview would help confirm or deny these theories. Without
- measurements, who knows?
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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