How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

Glen Barber glen.j.barber at gmail.com
Sun May 24 23:53:43 UTC 2009


On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Michael David Crawford <mdc at prgmr.com> wrote:
> This guy advises buying an old G4 Mac laptop to use as a netbook:
>
>   http://lowendmac.com/ed/herlihy/09ph/ibook-netbook.html
>
> While Apple might be planning to stop supporting PowerPC, one could run
> FreeBSD on it.
>
> Mac-Pro has good prices on used Mac laptops.  A G4 PowerBook is $500 to $650
> depending on what kind of burner is installed.
>
>   http://www.mac-pro.com/s.nl/sc.2/category.66/.f
>
> I was just now looking into ARM netbooks.  I think there's only one actual
> shipping model so far, but ARM shows great promise because ARM CPUs use very
> little power.  I expect there will be lots of them by the end of the year.
>
> Is there a FreeBSD ARM port? There's not one for 7.2.
>

How did this topic get switched to netbooks?

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Glen Barber


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