8.6% of that is taken by your Faster Than Light drive.
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8.6% of the processor or 8.6% of the total listed?
Of the Universe!
They need to increase those numbers, Thanos got 50%
Those are rookie numbers
Well go complain to Thanos
Well go complain to the red floating guy
Yes.
We need to buy more processors than....
You can speed up your FTL jump calculations by networking together various other ship computers. But you risk the Cylons hacking your firewall before you're done.
It can get you out of a tight spot though. And later you can just restore your software from pre-invasion backups.
So the blue light emanating from my computer must be actually Cherenkov radiation.
I don't think you should overclock that much.
Are you using dry ice for this?
CPU usage measuring is weird on Linux, when top says CPU usage is at 200% and you start panicking.
100% (I.e. Load Avg =1.0) is 1 core at full load
If you have 12 hyper threaded cores across 2 sockets then you’re not maxed until 48.0, or 4800%
It would be nice to see in terms of total system percentage but I get why it is the way it is
Hey, I am not that deep into Tech, but isn't swap supposed to be unused if the RAM is like 15% full?
Not necessarily no. That’s how it used to work a long time ago but swap is also used to store infrequently accessed memory in order to help free up contiguous blocks. Even if your memory isn’t 100% full, if a program needs a large sequential block and can’t get it, this can also cause an out of memory error (one large block in physical memory is faster than trying to break it apart using virtual addressing to spread it across gaps - although I think modern OSes can do both but prefer the faster solution). Also, modern OSes LOVE to cache tons of stuff in RAM whenever they can and keep it there (unused RAM is wasted RAM), but they can’t act like memory is full if they are doing that! It would drive users nuts. So that cache can just be thrown away and then reloaded later when something more important needs RAM. However, what happens if you have say a file cached and it hasn’t been written to the proper disk location yet and you need to free up space? You can swap out the cache until you are ready to write it to its proper disk location.
Swap isn’t just “overflow RAM” anymore like how Virtual Memory was in O.G. Mac System 7, it’s got a lot of complex uses now in order to make sure that the user can get the most out of the computer, instead of getting errors and having to close things when all it would take to keep things smooth is a little re-arranging.
This is also why it’s a bad idea to “just turn off swap” for container hosts and K8 nodes - it’s not always the performance gain you think it will be (depends highly on your workload of course!) and you should instead be tuning it rather than disabling it!
Ah thanks, TIL!
About a decade ago, Linux switched to proactively swapping out inactive memory pages.