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Date:      Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:26:19 -0400
From:      Vinny Abello <vinny@tellurian.com>
To:        Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>,David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Please confirm: top(1) cpu time broken on FreeBSD 6.1 (RELEASE/STABLE) SMP ?
Message-ID:  <7.0.1.0.2.20060719112609.0abfb010@tellurian.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060718161104.X36995@godot.imp.ch>
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Disable hyperthreading in your BIOS.

At 10:20 AM 7/18/2006, Martin Blapp wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Ok, seems to be a HTT issue on a untuned system.
>
>On two boxes I get with 'sysctl -a | grep smp | grep kern.smp.cpus'
>kern.smp.cpus: 4
>
>Here I see CPU-IDs 0 and 2 in top. No other CPUs seem to be
>used. Here I get the broken CPU usage.
>
>And yes, seeting hyperthreading_allowed=1 corrects the top usage.
>
>On two other boxes where it works I get 'sysctl -a | grep smp | grep 
>kern.smp.cpus' kern.smp.cpus: 2
>
>Here I see CPU-ID's 0 and 1 in top. Here everything works as it should.
>
>Martin
>
>Martin Blapp, <mb@imp.ch> <mbr@FreeBSD.org>
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