Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:25:47 -0400 From: Randall Stewart <rrs@cisco.com> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Brad Penoff <penoff@cs.ubc.ca>, Janardhan Iyengar <iyengar@conncoll.edu> Subject: Re: CPU utilization Message-ID: <461E092B.4080001@cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <evl00c$89j$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <461E0078.3050001@cisco.com> <evl00c$89j$1@sea.gmane.org>
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Ivan Voras wrote: > Randall Stewart wrote: > >> 1) stewart - running 7.0 (2.8gig p4 dual core) >> 2) bsd1 - running 7.0 (2.8gig Xeon Hyperthreaded) >> 3) bsd2 - running 6.2 (2.4gig Xeon Hyperthreaded) > >> I see CPU 1 always running the idle process... > > What's the value of machdep.hyperthreading_enabled on bsd1 and bsd2? > bsd2: machdep.hyperthreading_allowed: 0 bsd1: machdep.hyperthreading_allowed: 1 Ahh.;. I see so this controls what happens.. and maybe in 7.0 its on by default.. and on 6.x its not.. I will make an adjustment to my sysctl.conf file.. thanks this tells me a lot ;-D R -- Randall Stewart NSSTG - Cisco Systems Inc. 803-345-0369 <or> 803-317-4952 (cell)
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