Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:34:18 -0400 From: stan <stanb@panix.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: Bob Hall <rjhjr@cox.net>, Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Top behavior differences Message-ID: <20060911013418.GA16861@teddy.fas.com> In-Reply-To: <20060911005752.GF30620@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20060910125631.GA29818@teddy.fas.com> <20060910155704.GA49622@kongemord.krig.net> <20060910220404.GB11266@teddy.fas.com> <20060911005752.GF30620@dan.emsphone.com>
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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)
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