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Date:      Mon, 15 Feb 1999 02:46:21 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net>
To:        mrcpu@internetcds.com (Jaye Mathisen)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Processor affinity?
Message-ID:  <199902150746.CAA00364@y.dyson.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.990214183141.27256P-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net> from Jaye Mathisen at "Feb 14, 99 06:36:20 pm"

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Jaye Mathisen said:
> 
> For some reason that on the suface does not make sense to me, the perl
> script moved back and forth among the CPU's, just about like clockwork,
> every update or so of top.
> 
Yes, that is a pseudo-bug in the FreeBSD SMP scheduler.  It is fun to see
the CPU activity lights on a box that shows it, with CPU utilization bouncing
from CPU to CPU!!!  Indeed, a few changes should fix that :-).  I noticed that
on a quad PPro about 2yrs ago!!!

-- 
John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@iquest.net      | it makes one look stupid
jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.

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