Random data point: my P133 i386 1.4.1 box sits with a load of
	~0.3. Thats with moderate pine usage under X, plus an xload, and
	pload updating every 5 seconds.

	Running an xosview as well pushes the load up to ~0.5.

		David/absolute

On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Antti Kantee wrote:

> On Wed Nov 24 1999 at 16:03:06 +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > Hum, xosview ... what does top say ?
> > I'd suspect you have one point of load for the xosview process and another
> > one for X. This utility seems to do bad things with the X protocol (I
> > discovered when a user started it over ssh here ... ssh was too slow for it :)
> 
> top says idle as expected. And after the problem of explaining a load of
> two while the box is doing nothing, there is the problem of explaining a
> load of close to or over six when perhaps playing a mp3, running mutt,
> irc and sup.
> 
> The funny thing about this is the fact that I noticed that the loads
> went up by a factor of two or more after I switched to elf. I know elf
> is supposed to be a little slower, but not that much slower.