From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 22 9: 7:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from janus.hosting4u.net (janus.hosting4u.net [209.15.2.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D4E1C37B843 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 09:07:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andy@friends-tv.net) Received: (qmail 5833 invoked from network); 22 Apr 2000 16:07:33 -0000 Received: from jupiter.hosting4u.net (HELO friends-tv.net) (209.15.2.9) by janus.hosting4u.net with SMTP; 22 Apr 2000 16:07:33 -0000 Received: from blade ([195.217.160.159]) by friends-tv.net ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 11:07:30 -0500 Message-ID: <01a401bfac75$16cd7d20$0100a8c0@blade> From: "Andy Coates" To: "Alan Clegg" Cc: References: <017701bfac70$2152eaa0$0100a8c0@blade> <20000422114516.B85200@ecto.greenpeas.org> Subject: Re: Dual Processors Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 17:09:03 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Clegg" To: "Andy Coates" Cc: Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 4:45 PM Subject: Re: Dual Processors > Out of the ether, Andy Coates spewed forth the following bitstream: > > > Would that be okay? And how can I test that I am using both processors? I > > tried running a CPU intensive program and the load average never went over > > 1, which I thought would reach 2 if 2 processors were in use. > > Try running two of your intensive programs and see what 'top' tells you. > > ie: > > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND > 17601 nobody 66 1 15728K 14260K CPU0 0 108.3H 98.10% 98.10% setiathome > 17598 nobody 66 1 15148K 13748K RUN 1 108.3H 98.10% 98.10% setiathome Hehe, I ran both programs and sure enough they both were using 98% and 99% CPU time. So I take it that little test was successful, as now the load average is 2.2. Guess I just wasn't pushing it enough! Thanks. Andy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message