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Date:      Thu, 29 Aug 2002 23:03:37 -0500
From:      Joseph Lephan <mystical@houston.rr.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd not correctly monitoring cpu usage
Message-ID:  <20020829230337.A35047@houston.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020830035509.GL84840@adelaide.edu.au>; from tim@lost.net.au on Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 01:25:09PM %2B0930
References:  <20020829223029.A34857@houston.rr.com> <20020830035509.GL84840@adelaide.edu.au>

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* 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)


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