Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 17:21:43 -0400 From: James FitzGibbon <james@ehlo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: CPU states at 0.0% on 3.2-R SMP box ? Message-ID: <19990614172141.A30011@ehlo.com>
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Back in march of this year there was a thread in -questions and -smp about SMP boxes showing all CPU states at 0.0% and processes continuing to take up CPU time but not do any actual work. The responses to people's questions were usually along the lines of "Try 3.1-RELEASE, it should be fixed there". I've just installed 3.2-RELEASE on a Dual Xeon-450 ASUS board, and am seeing the same problem. I've tried using an aout version of /sbin/init, as was suggested by someone on the old thread, but that didn't solve anything. Is there a definate answer about this ? My boss says that when he last tried FreeBSD on this box, it was very unstable, and he corelates the wacky top behaviour with this instability. Hence, as long as top acts wacky, I can't move this box into production. I'm trying to find out if this is merely a presentation/lookup problem or if the CPU cycles really aren't being sliced up properly between processors. If anyone has more information, I'd really appreciate hearing it. Alternatively, if anyone who knows the SMP code wants to hack around on a box that exhibits this problem, I'd be glad to give you access. TIA. -- j. James FitzGibbon (JF647) james@ehlo.com EHLO Solutions Voice/Fax +1 416 410-0100 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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