From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 17 17:41:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from level3.dynacom.net (level3.dynacom.net [206.107.213.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C22337B4EC for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:41:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 17392 invoked by uid 0); 18 Feb 2001 01:41:53 -0000 Received: from dsl1-160.dynacom.net (HELO urx.com) (206.159.132.160) by mail.urx.com with SMTP; 18 Feb 2001 01:41:53 -0000 Message-ID: <3A8F2860.A8CC571C@urx.com> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:41:52 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Russell Francis Cc: Marco Masotti , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xcpustate and SMP References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Russell Francis wrote: > > > > Marco Masotti wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I' running xcpustate on a bi-processor machine, but I'm not able to see > > > the two bars that would be involved in a SMP config. > > > > > > When running locally on supported multiprocessors > > > (SolbourneOS/MPsystems, Ultrix multiprocessors, Linux/SMP, and the > > > Gould NP1), there will be one bar for each CPU. > > > > > > My hardware is an Abit BP6 with 2xCeleron@550, FreeBSD 4._REL, xcpustate > > > is version 2.5, patchlevel 1.13 > > > > > > BTW, Is FreeBSD a *not supported* multiprocessor? > > > > It is unless you turn on multi-processor support in the kernel. > > > > Kent > > I am also running a dual system and even with SMP compiled into the > kernel, the issue with monitoring software (xcpustate, xosview) only > showing one CPU still exists. SMP is supported though because when > one processor is maxed out it will show 50% when both processors are > maxed it will show 100%. SMP works but the software to admire it isn't > quite there. That is too bad. I just got a Abit VP8 with dual 866 running and so far my AMD Thunderbird 900 will do buildworld's 20% faster. I was hoping there was something that would show me where the bottleneck was. Kent > -Russ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message