Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 13:04:02 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Strange systat output on SMP FreeBSD 5.0-Current Message-ID: <XFMail.20030516130402.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3EC48742.2090609@he.iki.fi>
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On 16-May-2003 Petri Helenius wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > >>On 15-May-2003 Petri Helenius wrote: >> >> >>>>The <idle> is not a process, it's a measure of how idle the system is. >>>>It's generated from the same thing %idle in top(1) comes from. >>>>Probably systat should ignore the actual idle processes. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>That would be quite bad because thatīs the only place I know where you can >>>actually >>>see per-CPU utilization. (of the bundled utilities) >>> >>> >> >>top(1) >> >> >> > Where exactly? This is from an SMP machine: > > 26 processes: 2 running, 24 sleeping > CPU states: 14.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.2% system, 19.5% interrupt, 66.3% > idle > Mem: 165M Active, 582M Inact, 205M Wired, 44M Cache, 112M Buf, 5560K Free did you do a top -S to show system processes? That shows you the %time for each of the idle processes. Btw, the <idle> below is equivalent to the idle % above in the top display. > Here is "pigs" from the same: > root idle: cpu0 XXXXXXXXXXXXX > <idle> XXXXXXXXXXXX > root idle: cpu1 XXXXXXXXXXXX > root rxxxxxx XXXXX > root irq18: em2 XXX > root irq17: em1 XXX > > > > Pete > > -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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