On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Chris McDonough wrote: :Can a few folks with BSD/Solaris/HPUX/whateverotherthanLinux boxes try :the script that Tony found and see what it does on their machines? here on an old sun:
uname -a SunOS archiv 5.4 Generic_101945-32 sun4m sparc
tonys script prints one star, after a few (5-10) seconds top output looks like this: ---- last pid: 15721; load averages: 2.37, 1.18, 0.90 10:30:39 91 processes: 87 sleeping, 2 running, 2 on cpu Cpu states: 0.0% idle, 93.1% user, 6.9% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap Memory: 244M real, 528K free, 242M swap, 85M free swap PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 15700 styria -5 0 2152K 1088K run 2:46 40.09% 31.36% python 15721 styria -15 0 2160K 924K run 0:25 13.47% 27.95% python 15720 styria -4 0 2160K 1488K cpu 0:21 11.63% 23.29% python 15713 styria -7 0 2184K 1284K cpu 0:15 3.80% 3.82% top ---- i then had to stop the experiment; we need that machine and it is overloaded anyway ;) on my linux box the test script printed 131 stars (54 in a second run) then stops with two python threads eating all the cpu (x86 linux, kernel 2.2.14) we have some hpux machines here also but getting python w/ threading to compile there seems a little difficult. peter. -- _________________________________________________ peter sabaini, mailto: sabaini@niil.at -------------------------------------------------