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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
> > >
> > >
> > >
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