From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 5 04:49:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1244216A400 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 04:49:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AADD43D45 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 04:49:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [192.168.42.21] (andersonbox1.centtech.com [192.168.42.21]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k454nVxe072926; Thu, 4 May 2006 23:49:31 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <445AD95C.7040802@centtech.com> Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 23:49:32 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060402) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Long References: <445AB56F.8090907@centtech.com> <445AC174.5050102@pacific.net.sg> <445AC46F.30702@centtech.com> <445AD048.80305@pacific.net.sg> <445AD1AC.1070902@centtech.com> <445AD300.1020808@pacific.net.sg> <445AD50B.2060107@centtech.com> <445AD6B4.7050407@pacific.net.sg> <445AD83A.7090607@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <445AD83A.7090607@samsco.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1444/Thu May 4 16:21:06 2006 on mh2.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Core Duo - only one cpu being used X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 04:49:33 -0000 Scott Long wrote: > Erich Dollansky wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Eric Anderson wrote: >> >>> Erich Dollansky wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Eric Anderson wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU >>>>> COMMAND >>>>> 11 root 1 171 52 0K 8K CPU1 0 0:00 99.02% >>>>> idle: cpu1 >>>>> 2653 root 1 128 0 18564K 17560K RUN 0 0:01 34.00% >>>>> cc1plus >>>> >>>> >>>> could it be that it is just a problem with top itself? >>>> >>>> It cannot be that CPU1 uses 99% for the idle process and 34% for the >>>> compiler. >>>> >>>> Play with the other sort options. You might find the the idle >>>> process for CPU0. >>> >>> >>> Is this what you want: >>> >>> $ ps -auxw | grep idle >>> root 11 99.0 0.0 0 8 ?? RL 7:45PM 0:00.00 >>> [idle: cpu1] >>> root 12 0.0 0.0 0 8 ?? RL 7:45PM 51:04.57 >>> [idle: cpu0] >>> >> something is really wrong here. CPU1 gets 99% of the time but uses >> then only 0 seconds while CPU0 gets 0% of the time but uses 51 hours? > > CPU1 is being treated as a hyperthreading core instead of a real core, > and is being disabled per our policy on Intel hyperthreading. By > 'disabled' I mean that it is started, but it is being excluded from > scheduling decisions, and thus is only running its idle proc. It's > also handling any interrupts that come to it, such as timer and IPI > interrupts, so it's at 99% instead of 100% for the idle proc. There > is nothing broken about the number you are seeing, your system is > just running under a scheduling policy that it should not be. > > This should have been fixed a week or so ago by a commit to HEAD, > RELENG_6, and RELENG_6_1 by Colin Percival. How old is kernel? 6.1-RC FreeBSD 6.1-RC #13: Thu Apr 27 08:33:14 CDT 2006 So I probably just missed it. I'll rebuilt and try it tomorrow morning, and report back. Thanks for all the help and a good description. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------