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Date:      Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:18:27 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, d@delphij.net, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r198848 - head/bin/ps
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0911121416230.11129@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091113010924.M1122@besplex.bde.org>
References:  <200911030928.nA39SjLx085597@svn.freebsd.org> <20091103214231.H23957@delplex.bde.org> <4AF4B6B2.3090706@delphij.net> <20091111230915.B3510@besplex.bde.org> <20091112050515.GA15002@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20091113010924.M1122@besplex.bde.org>

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On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Bruce Evans wrote:

>>> Just print %CPU in %4.0f format when it is >= 99.5 (or whatever rounds to 
>>> 100.0).  This works up to 999.5 %CPU.
>> 
>> Actually, %4.0f works up to 9999.5 %CPU because there's no '.' in the 
>> result.  I think this is an excellent solution.  And since FreeBSD 
>> currently has a hard limit of 64 CPUs, it's unlikely to be exceeded for a 
>> while.
>
> Oops.

With 128-thread hardware just around the corner, we should be working to scrub 
assumption of 32 or 64 core limits wherever we find them.  I don't know what 
the next "reasonable" limit is, perhaps 1024, but arrays indexed by MAXCPU are 
becoming decreasingly useful in that light.  The dynamic per-CPU stuff for the 
kernel addresses some but not all of these problems.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge



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