Re: [chat] Re: [SLUG] "My uptime is bigger than your uptime"

[Malcolm V <farkit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Uptimes are impressive for light bulbs, but real silicon measures
process time.

>From my firewall/proxy machine that also runs dnetc on the side:
(from procinfo)

  Bootup: Mon Nov 26 00:57:22 2001    
  Load average: 1.00 1.00 1.00 4/52 19045

  user  :       3:57:51.72   0.7%  page in :  1377383
  nice  :  24d  3:25:19.12  98.9%  page out:  3186747
  system:       2:24:02.44   0.4%  swap in :        2
  idle  :       0:01:51.33   0.0%  swap out:        0
  uptime:  24d  9:49:04.60         context : 94568060

This machine actually has a bit more idle time because I was doing some
thermal testing on the cpu:
(from procinfo)

  Bootup: Sat Nov 24 15:53:04 2001    
  Load average: 1.00 1.00 1.00 2/39 19367
  user  :       1:21:15.89   0.2%  page in :  1406891  disk 1:   221062r  399374w
  nice  :  25d  4:16:24.14  97.3%  page out:  1417345
  system:       0:42:52.26   0.1%  swap in :   981744
  idle  :      14:40:42.88   2.4%  swap out:   900561
  uptime:  25d 21:01:15.16         context : 22545066

So, how low is your idle time?