From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Sep 27 23:31: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [216.33.66.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5925637B406 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 23:30:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id EAF6D81D0C; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 01:30:53 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 01:30:53 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Hassan Halta Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Zero % values for CPU and WCPU Message-ID: <20010928013053.Z59854@elvis.mu.org> References: <20010928012505.X52188-100000@quark.cs.earlham.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010928012505.X52188-100000@quark.cs.earlham.edu>; from hassan@cs.earlham.edu on Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 01:29:24AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Hassan Halta [010928 01:29] wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a weird problem with top after having SMP enabled in the Kernel. > Everything seems to be working just fine, except for stuff like top starts > giving me weird errors with zero % of the CPU usage. I tried to hammer the > CPU with some benchmarks, and see if that makes it get away from zero, but > there was no hope. I even recomplied top, and things seem to be the same. > Just a quick note, when I add "options NCPU=x" it says that NPU is an > unknown command, which is totally weird. > > I am running FreeBSD 4.3 Stable. It is been a problem since I had FreeBSD > 4.2 and I hoped that it would go away with 4.3, but I guess not. > > I hope that I can get some help with this! I've had this problem before, usually updating the motherboard's bios fixes it. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message