Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:13:06 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cpu usage in 7.0 Message-ID: <47BF5702.3020204@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <845250.18624.qm@web63909.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <845250.18624.qm@web63909.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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Barney Cordoba wrote: > I have a dual core system running 7.0 and I can't get > top to show more than 100% usage no matter how I > hammer it. My MAC shows over 100% often, but its not > clear if top is averaging the 2 cpus or just not going > over 100, or just showing 1 of the cpus. 100% in FreeBSD means "all of your CPUs are completely active". It is hard to exceed this amount :-) > Is there any way to show the per-cpu usage to get an > idea of the overall efficiency of sharing? Are there > any tools that can be used to monitor this? What > exactly is top showing? Not in 7.0. 8.0 supports top -P and vmstat -P Kris
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