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From: Viswanathan Prakash <prakash@ccs.neu.edu>
To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc: simakin <simakin@rw.ru>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Re[2]: dual CPU under FreeBSD - does it really good thing?
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Hi. I was following this discussion and had a question. Is there a
utility, like osview on Solaris, which lets you look at CPU utilization,
load, etc?

Thanks,

Prakash

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Mike Meyer wrote:

> RW <simakin@rw.ru> types:
> > Thank you, Mike!
> > 
> > I try to explain my question - can I tell to process (apache, for
> > example) to work only on first (or second) CPU?
> > Does it possible to execute something like
> >      /usr/local/sbin/snmpd &2  # using second CPU
> > or like this
> >      cpu_manager cpu=2 process=/usr/local/sbin/snmpd
> > May be stupid example, but in NT we can point to services on which cpu
> > they must run.
> 
> Nope, you can't do that. Given that the two processors are treated
> symmetrically (that's what the S in SMP is for), why would you want to
> run it on anything other than the first available CPU?
> 
> 	<mike
> 
> > >>  Can I separate tasks between different CPUs?
> > MM> I'm not sure what you're asking.  You can't specify which CPU a task
> > MM> winds up on, or which tasks wind up on different CPUs. You can break
> > MM> your computing job up into tasks however you want to, but the system
> > MM> will decide which tasks run on which CPU.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> --
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