From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 18 14:12:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A0D016A4DD for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:12:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E89F043D58 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:12:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53D4E5DB3; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:12:31 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id hRW5c2aX0gTF; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:12:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.251] (pool-68-161-117-245.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.117.245]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26DEA5C31; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:12:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44BCEC46.1050303@mac.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:12:22 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Blapp References: <20060718152306.X36995@godot.imp.ch> <20060718155642.H36995@godot.imp.ch> In-Reply-To: <20060718155642.H36995@godot.imp.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please confirm: top(1) cpu time broken on FreeBSD 6.1 (RELEASE/STABLE) SMP ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:12:40 -0000 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