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Date:      Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:57:52 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Bob Hall <rjhjr@cox.net>, Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Top behavior differences
Message-ID:  <20060911005752.GF30620@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060910220404.GB11266@teddy.fas.com>
References:  <20060910125631.GA29818@teddy.fas.com> <20060910155704.GA49622@kongemord.krig.net> <20060910220404.GB11266@teddy.fas.com>

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In the last episode (Sep 10), stan said:
> 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?
> > 
> > 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.

FreeBSD does not currently track per-cpu usage, only a total.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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