From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 11 00:58:01 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 A796516A40F for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:58:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51AAE43D49 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:58:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) id k8B0vqXp057029; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:57:52 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:57:52 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Bob Hall , Free BSD Questions list Message-ID: <20060911005752.GF30620@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20060910125631.GA29818@teddy.fas.com> <20060910155704.GA49622@kongemord.krig.net> <20060910220404.GB11266@teddy.fas.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060910220404.GB11266@teddy.fas.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) 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: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:58:01 -0000 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