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Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:05:24 +1300
From: Gareth Redman <gredman@gmail.com>
To: Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 5.3-stable -- all CPU usage show 0%
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On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:06:09 +0530, Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:10:21 -0400, Chen Xu <xuchen66@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am running 5.3-stable. since 5.3RC1, my CPU status from `top` show
> > all zeros, like this. Can anyone tell me what is wrong?
> 
> What makes you feel that something is wrong? If the processes are not
> using the processor I would be pretty hapy about it <giggles>. Getting
> back to the point, processes on *nix boxes do not consume processor
> like the Wind0ze family of OSses. SO its perfectly normal what u see.
> 

I don't think it is normal, as even the idle state is at 0.00%.  I
would make sure that base is in sync with the kernel, as documented in
<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html>.

-- 
Gareth Redman