From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 29 21: 5:51 2002 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 3DCA937B413 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 21:05:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from houston.rr.com (cs2417481-85.houston.rr.com [24.174.81.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F04443E84 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 21:04:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mystical@houston.rr.com) Received: from houston.rr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by houston.rr.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7U43ck4035079 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 23:03:38 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mystical@houston.rr.com) Received: (from mystical@localhost) by houston.rr.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g7U43bM4035078 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 23:03:37 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 23:03:37 -0500 From: Joseph Lephan To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd not correctly monitoring cpu usage Message-ID: <20020829230337.A35047@houston.rr.com> References: <20020829223029.A34857@houston.rr.com> <20020830035509.GL84840@adelaide.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020830035509.GL84840@adelaide.edu.au>; from tim@lost.net.au on Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 01:25:09PM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Tim Peters (tim@lost.net.au) wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 10:30:29PM -0500, Joseph Lephan wrote: > > For instance, gkrellm will not detect ANY cpu usage at all. This > > is driving me nuts. I've read multiple manuals, but no where is it > > listed where to configure freebsd for this porpose. I'm only > > guessing that my kernelconf wasn't configured correctly, or that > > something is seriously wrong. BTW not only is gkrellm acting up, > > but also any Wmaker dockapp, or Xcpu utility. > > please help > > what about 'top'? does that display any CPU usage? nope, top didn't register it either: 0.0% for user/nice/system/interrupt/idle > > some load monitors only work on linux. i'd expect them to work if > you installed them from ports, but you don't say if you did or not. both gkrellm and wmaker were installed from ports. I thinking about trying to compile from source, but i don't know how that will turn out > > ps - while writing the above 3 lines, i installed gkrellm on my > freebsd 4.5 machine and it worked fine! Darn IT!!! :o) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message