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 -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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