From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 30 14:54:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DDBF16A4E1 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:54:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from zeus.dfwlp.com (zeus.dfwlp.com [208.11.134.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB34643D5D for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:54:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from athena.dfwlp.com (athena.dfwlp.com [192.168.125.83]) (authenticated bits=0) by zeus.dfwlp.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6UEr7TU018479 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 09:53:07 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) From: Jonathan Horne To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 09:54:15 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607300954.15235.freebsd@dfwlp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on zeus.dfwlp.com Subject: anyone with a p4 HT machine ever see anything from cpu1? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:54:19 -0000 i have smp support compiled into my kernel, an still, i never see anything on the HT'd cpu. i realize that most ppl believe that the HT portion of the technology was just a bunch of smoke blown up our butts by intel, but windows sure loves to bounce that extra cpu graph around a lot. below is just a snip of my top window, but as far down as i can stretch my 1280x1024 screen, its all "cpu 0" processes, even while compiling. last pid: 16214; load averages: 0.75, 0.35, 0.17 up 1+00:37:34 09:43:04 114 processes: 2 running, 112 sleeping CPU states: 34.2% user, 0.0% nice, 15.4% system, 0.4% interrupt, 50.0% idle Mem: 202M Active, 456M Inact, 232M Wired, 860K Cache, 110M Buf, 97M Free Swap: 983M Total, 983M Free PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 8805 root 1 8 0 35880K 35552K wait 0 0:11 15.64% ruby18 15952 root 1 8 0 1224K 1112K wait 0 0:00 8.00% make 15925 root 1 8 0 1224K 1112K wait 0 0:00 3.59% make 656 jhorne 1 96 0 303M 53372K select 0 8:25 2.69% Xorg 742 jhorne 1 96 0 12632K 8252K select 0 16:42 1.03% gkrellm 1337 jhorne 1 96 0 29092K 21276K select 0 0:02 0.78% kdeinit 732 jhorne 1 96 0 30700K 22904K select 0 1:21 0.10% kdeinit 293 root 1 96 0 1260K 684K select 0 0:24 0.05% moused 752 jhorne 1 96 0 25780K 17952K select 0 7:07 0.00% kdeinit 738 jhorne 4 20 -76 14012K 8132K kserel 0 1:34 0.00% artsd 758 jhorne 1 96 0 31820K 21544K select 0 1:24 0.00% kdeinit 720 jhorne 1 96 0 30724K 22796K select 0 1:13 0.00% kdeinit 695 jhorne 1 96 0 3532K 2012K select 0 0:41 0.00% gam_server 728 jhorne 1 96 0 25596K 17556K select 0 0:12 0.00% kdeinit dmesg shows that freebsd sees the other cpu... [root@athena ~]# dmesg | grep cpu cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu0: on acpi0 acpi_throttle0: on cpu0 cpu1: on acpi0 acpi_throttle1: on cpu1 cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu0: on acpi0 acpi_throttle0: on cpu0 cpu1: on acpi0 acpi_throttle1: on cpu1 FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! so is the SMP portion of the technology as worthless as 'they' say? thanks, jonathan