From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 11 01:34:20 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 C62A216A412 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 01:34:20 +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 3679E43D45 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 01:34:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stanb@panix.com) Received: from mailspool3.panix.com (mailspool3.panix.com [166.84.1.78]) by mail2.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30EA59DA2A; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:34:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from teddy.fas.com (c-68-58-232-106.hsd1.sc.comcast.net [68.58.232.106]) by mailspool3.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65DA7D908E0; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:34:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1GMagk-0004Oc-00; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:34:18 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:34:18 -0400 From: stan To: Dan Nelson Message-ID: <20060911013418.GA16861@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dan Nelson , Bob Hall , Free BSD Questions list References: <20060910125631.GA29818@teddy.fas.com> <20060910155704.GA49622@kongemord.krig.net> <20060910220404.GB11266@teddy.fas.com> <20060911005752.GF30620@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060911005752.GF30620@dan.emsphone.com> X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.23 X-Uptime: 21:32:23 up 146 days, 22:35, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.00 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Stan Brown Cc: Bob Hall , Free BSD Questions list 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 01:34:20 -0000 On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 07:57:52PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > 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. > Thanks you. That's the answer I was looking for. -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)