That you only have 3 CPUs! It\'s 2009! Modernize!

Two guesses: CPU3 is doing most of the work, and no memory is being used.

...probably both wrong, but their explanations might be interesting.

CPU3 doing most of the work is just random chance. Also, memory is being used (342MB), you just can\'t see it very well on the chart because it\'s out of ~4GB. Neither usage levels are high because I\'d just installed Linux on the machine and wasn\'t actually doing anything yet.

The \"wrong\" thing with the picture is that there are 3, not 2 or 4, CPUs, because I got a new AMD Phenom II X3 CPU; they\'re using a manufacturing/sales scheme that takes advantage of the fact that processors frequently have defects; they make quad core processors, and if one of the cores doesn\'t work, they just disable it and sell it as a triple core. Sony does a similar thing with the PS3 CPU which allows them to build them cheaper; it has 1 main core and 8 supplemental cores, but only 7 of them are enabled, allowing for one of them to be defective in the manufacturing process.

commodity computing hardware sucks, so does python

also my question about bdb was, how many puts can you normally do in a single transaction? when the items already exist in the db, it\'s like 1600, when none of them do it\'s like 86k. do you know why???? what is the recommended usage??? tell me