From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 10 22:04:14 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 EFB3716A415 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 22:04:14 +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 836D743D45 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 22:04:11 +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 A0DCD9D847; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 18:04:08 -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 8B24AB54A21; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 18:04:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1GMXPI-00033j-00; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 18:04:04 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 18:04:04 -0400 From: stan To: Bob Hall , Free BSD Questions list Message-ID: <20060910220404.GB11266@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: Bob Hall , Free BSD Questions list References: <20060910125631.GA29818@teddy.fas.com> <20060910155704.GA49622@kongemord.krig.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060910155704.GA49622@kongemord.krig.net> X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.23 X-Uptime: 17:49:48 up 146 days, 18:52, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.09, 0.04 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Stan Brown Cc: Subject: Re: Top behavior differences 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: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 22:04:15 -0000 On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 11:57:05AM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: > On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 08:56:31AM -0400, stan wrote: > > Can someone explain to me why top's handling of multi processor > > status display is different on FreeBSD, than it is on Linux? > > Open source started with the concept of individuals hacking the source > code to get the features they want. The commericial ideal of users paying > for features they want was replaced by the ideal of users doing the work > to create the features they want. Open source has evolved into the > concept of many users getting a free ride as a relatively small number > of open source programmers do the work for them, without pay. > > Possible reasons why open source software X doesn't have feature Y: > -- Long discussion of open source philosophy dleted --- Once upon a time, when people posted on lists like this, they got well reasoned technical answers. The question I was really asking, is if there is a technical reason for this difference (eg difernt sturctures for obatining the information in the 2 OS's). The reason that i feel this is an apropriate place to ask such a question, is that top is NOT a port, but is provided by the base OS in FreeBSD. -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)