From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 10 16:59:12 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 A1FA016A4DD for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:59:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6371E43D46 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:59:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 433E41A3C24; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:59:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7B17351590; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:59:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:59:11 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Duane Hill Message-ID: <20060810165911.GA82225@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20060810060154.B32245@cgate.yournetplus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wac7ysb48OaltWcw" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060810060154.B32245@cgate.yournetplus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 16:59:12 -0000 --wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 06:08:00AM +0000, Duane Hill wrote: >=20 > I know this was asked once before. I can't recall if it had received a=20 > response or not. If so, tell me to go digging. >=20 > Otherwise, I have a server that is a dual Zeon 2.8 and I have the=20 > hyperthreading enabled within the bios. When I use top, it shows one of= =20 > the CPU's as apparently not being used. Why is this? >=20 > 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 Hyperthreading is not enabled in FreeBSD (it's off by default)? On some systems the sysctl for disabling HTT doesn't actually work properly and leaves some of the logical CPUs active. Kris --wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE22XfWry0BWjoQKURApDJAJwIvyl38WB97ZYMUnC6gpcbqoU4RQCg2AJ5 MnsYQcjExx+IlVy6DXjYqtA= =cPib -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wac7ysb48OaltWcw--