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Re: Process priorities

On 9/18/02 jimmy wrote:

> top itself seems to consume quite a high percentage of CPU (6-12%). Is
> there a reason top consumes so much CPU, in comparison to FreeBSD where top
> sucks maybe 2% max?

I am interested in the answer to this very same question. I asked Apple-folk
at MWNYC, and they poo-poo'd me (the conference technique of sidestepping
your question by questioning how much YOU know). They basically tried to say
that Darwin was doing "more work" and that FreeBSD's top couldn't be
consuming so few cycles. Both are BS. This issue is of particular concern to
me because I use FreeBSD so frequently...and most of the processes on that
platform FEEL like they execute more quickly, dramatically more
quickly--doing so on hardware that shouldn't be (isn't) faster.

-scott
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