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Date:      Fri, 28 Sep 2001 01:30:53 -0500
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Hassan Halta <hassan@cs.earlham.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Zero % values for CPU and WCPU
Message-ID:  <20010928013053.Z59854@elvis.mu.org>
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
References:  <20010928012505.X52188-100000@quark.cs.earlham.edu>

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* Hassan Halta <hassan@cs.earlham.edu> [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.'

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