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From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: Multi CPU?
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Jeff Mohler wrote:
> Am I using both CPUs as I should when I look at this from top?
>
>  PID    UID         THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU
> COMMAND
>   11      0           1 171   52     0K     8K CPU1   0   0:00 99.56% 
> idle:
> cpu1
>   12      0           1 171   52     0K     8K RUN    0 666.2H 78.81% 
> idle:
> cpu0
>
>
>
> cpu1 seems...not used?
    Depends on the version of FreeBSD, as well as the scheduler you're 
using.
    7-CURRENT with the ULE scheduler is quite a bit better than the same 
version with the 4BSD. 6.x with the ULE scheduler shouldn't be used 
because it's highly unstable.
-Garrett