From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 30 10:32:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c001.snv.cp.net (c001-h007.c001.snv.cp.net [209.228.32.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2981737B419 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:32:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (cpmta 9209 invoked from network); 30 Apr 2002 10:32:21 -0700 Received: from 209.228.32.128 (HELO mail.atkinshome.com.criticalpath.net) by smtp.register-admin.com (209.228.32.121) with SMTP; 30 Apr 2002 10:32:21 -0700 X-Sent: 30 Apr 2002 17:32:21 GMT Received: from [64.75.4.241] by mail.atkinshome.com with HTTP; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:32:19 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: dave@atkinshome.com Subject: cpu utilization on multi-processor machine X-Sent-From: dave@atkinshome.com Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:32:19 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: Web Mail 5.0.8-8 Message-Id: <20020430103221.24642.h014.c001.wm@mail.atkinshome.com.criticalpath.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What is the most accurate command to obtain the current cpu utilization and memory usage on a dual processor system? Basically, I am looking for something analogous to the task/manager / performance monitor in Windows (but not graphical--I don't install any of that stuff on the BSD boxes). I have used various commands such as systat, top, and vmstat but 1) they do not break down CPU utilization into the two processors 2) they do not appear to report a comparable (to Windows) %utilization number 3) I don't understand how to interpret all the memory metrics into a simple data point - percent of physical memory used. If anyone can post example syntax with results and how to interpret them, this would be great. I'm not a total Windows tool or anything...but in my mixed environment, I need some comparable metrics to demonstrate what I hope is true...that freeBSD is outperfoming Windows. Dave Atkins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message