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From: trs@gibbs.physics.purdue.edu (Thomas R. Statnick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ccpu
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Date: 21 Apr 91 02:46:50 GMT
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In article <16226.280f85ed@levels.sait.edu.au> xtdn@levels.sait.edu.au writes:
>Ray.Moody@Cray.Com writes:
>> Ccpu is used compute a processes percent CPU utilization.  It is a
>> constant traditionally set to exp(-1/20).  It is unusual in that it is
>> one of the very few floating point numbers in the kernel.
>
>Or did you mean that ccpu is one of the few floating point constants in
>the kernel?

   If you read the last sentence of what Ray said, that is *exactly* what
he *is* saying.  Ccpu is unusual in that it *is* one of the very few floating
point numbers kept in the kernel (to paraphrase).

     trs