Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:12:22 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please confirm: top(1) cpu time broken on FreeBSD 6.1 (RELEASE/STABLE) SMP ? Message-ID: <44BCEC46.1050303@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20060718155642.H36995@godot.imp.ch> References: <20060718152306.X36995@godot.imp.ch> <20060718155642.H36995@godot.imp.ch>
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Hi, Martin-- Martin Blapp wrote: [ ...test program to create load... ] > CPU states: 50.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 50.0% > idle You've probably got HTT disabled by sysctl rather than in the BIOS. In that case, top "sees" that your system claims to have 4 CPUs, but you're only going to schedule tasks on 2 of them. Turning HTT off in the BIOS rather than via the sysctl would probably make top's view of your system more sensible... -- -Chuck
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