Where does the CPU go, when its not doing nuthin' (gr_osview)

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From: Mark Rosenstein
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 06:39

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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.]

Thanks.

Mark.
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He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.
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