Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 23:33:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org> To: Tim Kellers <timothyk@mts-104.wallnet.com> Cc: Tim Kellers <timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: CPU states at 0.0% in top Message-ID: <20020525233116.O80046-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> In-Reply-To: <200205252308.59382.timothyk@mts-104.wallnet.com>
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Well, it can affect process accounting, so sometimes I think certain processes can take more cpu than they're showing and stuff like that. If you use FreeBSD-5.0-DP1, it has acpi, and with that, my dell laptop gets a working statclock, so things work right again.... but that is a Developer Preview, it's not an actual release. Ken On Sat, 25 May 2002, Tim Kellers wrote: > Thanks for the reply Ken. > > Does this effect anything else you know of? I know I haven't been able to > find anything else broken. > > Tim Kellers > CPE/NJIT > > On Saturday 25 May 2002 10:54 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote: > > The statclock is broken on some dell laptops. This is normal. > > > > Ken > > > > On Sat, 25 May 2002, Tim Kellers wrote: > > > When using "top" on my Dell Latitude C600 laptop, the CPU states all say > > > 0.0%, to wit: > > > > > > > > > > > > last pid: 503; load averages: 1.00, 0.99, 0.77 > > > up 0+00:21:46 19:44:33 > > > 73 processes: 3 running, 70 sleeping > > > CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% > > > idle Mem: 65M Active, 65M Inact, 27M Wired, 2808K Cache, 35M Buf, 88M > > > Free Swap: 512M Total, 512M Free > > > > > > Many processes are running and nothing obvious seems to be "not working" > > > on this computer, but my Dell servers, my Desktop and even other Toshiba > > > laptops don't exhibit this anomaly; "top" works as expected. Has anybody > > > else seen this on a similar (or different) box? > > > > > > For the record, here's the uname -a from that laptop: > > > > > > FreeBSD mts-121.wallnet.com 4.6-RC FreeBSD 4.6-RC #11: Thu May 23 > > > 11:28:10 GMT 2002 > > > timothyk@mts-121.wallnet.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/REMUS i386 > > > > > > > > > TIA, > > > > > > Tim Kellers > > > CPE/NJIT > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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