From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 14 00:22:23 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 06B6816A4DF for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:22:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stanb@panix.com) Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.1.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AF8743D4C for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:22:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stanb@panix.com) Received: from mailspool2.panix.com (mailspool2.panix.com [166.84.1.79]) by mail2.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 900A69D958; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:22:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from teddy.fas.com (c-68-58-232-106.hsd1.sc.comcast.net [68.58.232.106]) by mailspool2.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A358A544361; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:22:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1G1BRi-0006ef-00; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:22:18 -0400 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:22:18 -0400 From: stan To: Bob Johnson Message-ID: <20060714002218.GB25387@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: Bob Johnson , Free BSD Questions list References: <20060713123214.GA30789@teddy.fas.com> <20060713201653.GA18143@teddy.fas.com> <54db43990607131503w6203cbb8t46e478a008895b52@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54db43990607131503w6203cbb8t46e478a008895b52@mail.gmail.com> X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.23 X-Uptime: 20:12:57 up 87 days, 21:21, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Stan Brown Cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: top and multiple CPU's 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: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:22:23 -0000 On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 06:03:49PM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote: > On 7/13/06, stan wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 06:08:50PM +0530, Ashok TM wrote: > >> use > >> top -S > >> There will be new column with 'C' tag which displays the the cpu id on > >> which the process is running > >> > >> mptables to list the processors available > > > >Hmm, > > > >cvsup# mptables > >mptables: Command not found. > >cvsup# man -k mptables > >mptables: nothing appropriate > > > >and the man page for top says that _s os: > > > > -S Show system processes in the display. Normally, > > system pro- cesses such as the pager and the swapper are not > > shown. > > This option makes them visible. > > > >Am I mising something? > > Perhaps you haven't actually tried it to see what happens. On 5.4, > there is not an extra column, but top -S includes each CPU's idle > percentage as a separate system process, so you can get some idea of > how well balanced things are. Perhaps the description above was for > 7-CURRENT and 6.1-R acts more like 5.4. I don't have a 6.1 SMP system > to test it on. > See my other reply. It appears that I don't get this, probably because I have not sucesfuly enable SMP on this machine. Which is what I was trying to asertain. -- U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror - New York Times 9/3/1967