From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 10 06:08:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8F6B16A503 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:08:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from d.hill@yournetplus.com) Received: from admin.mwci.net (corp.yournetplus.com [162.42.148.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7FCF43D53 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:08:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from d.hill@yournetplus.com) Received: from corp.yournetplus.com ([162.42.148.121] verified) by admin.mwci.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP-TLS id 33060065 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:08:01 +0000 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:08:00 +0000 (WET) From: Duane Hill To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060810060154.B32245@cgate.yournetplus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Once CPU idle at all times X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:08:06 -0000 I know this was asked once before. I can't recall if it had received a response or not. If so, tell me to go digging. Otherwise, I have a server that is a dual Zeon 2.8 and I have the hyperthreading enabled within the bios. When I use top, it shows one of the CPU's as apparently not being used. Why is this? 13 root 171 52 0K 8K CPU1 0 0:00 99.85% idle: cpu1 <-- This one 11 root 171 52 0K 8K RUN 3 383.1H 61.38% idle: cpu3 14 root 171 52 0K 8K RUN 0 403.4H 61.13% idle: cpu0 12 root 171 52 0K 8K RUN 2 333.4H 49.95% idle: cpu2 -- "This message was sent using 100% recycled electrons."