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Date:      Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:04:52 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "Andrew Edmond (Chief Executive Officer)" <president@sextracker.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: top with SMP is not working on 3.0-RELEASE?
Message-ID:  <19990321130452.H429@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903201809520.19049-100000@gilliam.flyingcroc.com>; from Andrew N. Edmond (Nero) on Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 06:12:26PM -0800
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903201809520.19049-100000@gilliam.flyingcroc.com>

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On Saturday, 20 March 1999 at 18:12:26 -0800, Andrew N. Edmond (Nero) wrote:
>
> I have 70 machines... all running the same hardware:  Asus P2B-D, Dual
> Pentium II 400mhz, 512MB RAM, Adaptec 2940UW/9GB Seagate Cheetah.  All
> have FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE installed.  All have the same kernel compiled on
> them... however, about 15% of these machines show 0% idle on top, 0/0/0
> load, 0% in each entry on top (even when I run a while(1) proggy).
>
> Anybody heard of this symptom on know the cause?

Yes, I seem to remember there was a problem there.  It was fixed a
while back, but I can't find the documentation offhand.  I don't think
it affected only SMP system.  If you're running a production system,
you probably want to move to 3.1-RELEASE anyway; it's fixed there.

Greg
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