Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:22:18 -0400 From: stan <stanb@panix.com> To: Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: top and multiple CPU's Message-ID: <20060714002218.GB25387@teddy.fas.com> In-Reply-To: <54db43990607131503w6203cbb8t46e478a008895b52@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060713123214.GA30789@teddy.fas.com> <ef4898ff0607130538r602da3aegb4f8938dad424d8f@mail.gmail.com> <20060713201653.GA18143@teddy.fas.com> <54db43990607131503w6203cbb8t46e478a008895b52@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 06:03:49PM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote: > On 7/13/06, stan <stanb@panix.com> 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
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