Abe Heckenbach wrote:
> 
> hey all,
> 
>  I just got home from the 1st day of the geek fest(aka linux_expo), and
> I have to say it was damn cool to see a compaq beowolf cluster, running
> pov-ray at about 4 secs. a frame. ah yes.. the future is near my
> friends...
> 
> BUT the really interesting thing is that the CPU meters usually didn't
> reach top speed.. anyone  know why??
> 

5% of the system recources are reserved for root. This for memory,
harddrives, CPU, anything. When I'm running povray I cannot give it more
then 95% of my CPU, unless I'm running it as root, but that's evil.

Remco Poelstra

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