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Date:      Sun, 27 Oct 2002 17:04:48 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To:        wd@arpa.com (Chip Norkus)
Cc:        rosc@imc.nl (Roelf Schreurs), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMP problems
Message-ID:  <200210272204.g9RM4mS13258@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20021027114241.GK15629@arpa.com> from "Chip Norkus" at Oct 27, 2002 05:42:41 AM

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> On Sun Oct 27, 2002; 11:51AM +0100 Roelf Schreurs propagated the following:
> > Top only shows 1 CPU and not 2.
> > 
> 
> Yes.  The 'CPU' line is a combination of the activity measured on both
> CPUs.  You should pay more attention to the stuff in your dmesg (namely
> this stuff quoted here:)
> 
> > >>FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard
> > >>cpu0 (BSP): apic id:  1, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
> > >>cpu1 (AP):  apic id:  0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
> 
> On my SMP machine I have exactly the same behavior.  Don't get too worried
> about it. :)

I think you are right (eg don't be worried), although I believe some 
vendors have modified their proprietary versions of *NIX and TOP so 
theirs show numbers of CPUs in a special way.   I have seen them, but 
don't remember clearly.
Anyway, maybe he was influenced by something like these.

////jerry

> 
> -wd
> -- 
> chip norkus; unix geek and programmer;          wd@arpa.com

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