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Subject: Re: Please confirm: top(1) cpu time broken on FreeBSD 6.1
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Martin Blapp wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> Disable hyperthreading in your BIOS.
> 
> Off course this is a solution, but I don't like
> it. On a untuned, unmodified, unpatched system top(1)
> should display the correct values IMHO.

On some systems (like my Dell) it does work as expected on an untuned
system, as hyperthreading defaults to off in the BIOS.


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