Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:02:55 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Hugo Silva <hugo@barafranca.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cpu usage in 7.0 Message-ID: <47BFB70F.5080402@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <47BF8EB7.9090007@barafranca.com> References: <845250.18624.qm@web63909.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <47BF5702.3020204@FreeBSD.org> <47BF8EB7.9090007@barafranca.com>
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Hugo Silva wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: >> 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 :-) > > You should see my production mysql going over 458% on service startup, > on a quad core server :-) That is a multithreaded process using multiple CPUs, not the total CPU statistics (first line of top(1)). Kris
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