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Date:      Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:43:27 -0400
From:      Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>
To:        "'John E. Hein'" <jhein@timing.com>, Kelsey Cummings <kc@neteze.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: CPU times not displaying in 'top'
Message-ID:  <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105C7B@site2s1>

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For the record I thought this was something that was addresses about a month
or 2 ago.  I don't remember the solution since I don't run an SMP kernel
myself.  I believe it had something to do with APM being enabled in the
kernel config.

Take a look through the questions and stable mailing list archives and I
think you'll find your solution.

-Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	John E. Hein [SMTP:jhein@timing.com]
> Sent:	Monday, September 20, 1999 5:22 PM
> To:	Kelsey Cummings
> Cc:	freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject:	CPU times not displaying in 'top'
> 
> Kelsey Cummings wrote at 13:30 -0700 on Sep 20:
>  > I recently noticed that the cpu times on my server are not displayed
> under
>  > top.  'uptime' reports the average cpu times.  I'm running 3.2-release
> with
>  > and SMP kernel (dual pII-450 on a ASUS p2bs(?)) Is this something that
> I
>  > should be concerned about?  What's broken?
> [top output snipped]
> 
> FWIW, I get the same symptoms (3.2-STABLE dual CPU).  'ps' and 'vmstat'
> both
>  behave the same way (they report 0 % CPU usage for all processes even
> under
>  heavy load).
> 
> Note, I tried it after rebooting nearly 3 weeks ago, and it was not
>  working.  Then I tried it when I received your email just to double
>  check.  It was working!  So I ran 'xosview' (are you running that,
>  too?), and it was working fine for about 10 minutes.  Then I got the
>  following error message and all indicators (top, ps, vmstat) resumed
>  their bogus '0% CPU usage' behavior.
> 
> Warning:  CPUMeter meter had a zero total field!  Would have caused a
> div-by-zero exception.
>   Warning:  the CPU tick counters are not changing.  This could
> be due to running a kernel besides /netbsd (or the equivalent for
> FreeBSD).
>   If this is the case, re-run xosview with the -N kernel-name option.
>   If not, then this is a bug.  Please send a message to
> bgrayson@ece.utexas.edu, in addition to any send-pr bug reports
> (or in lieu of -- it ought to get fixed faster if you contact me
> directly).  Thanks!
> 
> For those that don't know, xosview is a GUI CPU/etc. meter (see
>  /usr/ports/sysutils/xosview).
> 
> 
> % uname -s -r -m
> FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386
> 
> % ps auwx | awk '{print $3}' | sort -u
> %CPU
> 0.0
> 
> % vmstat 3
>  procs      memory     page                   disks        faults      cpu
>  r b w     avm   fre  flt  re  pi  po  fr  sr da0 da1 fd0   in   sy  cs us
> sy id
>  1 2 0   13748 10968   10   0   0   0  10   9   0   0   0  146   21  98  0
> 2 98
>  1 1 0   15116  9704    2   0   0   0   0   0   0  59   0  419   35 192  0
> 0  0
>  0 1 0   15620  8552    1   0   0   0   0   0   0  66   0  505   40 242  0
> 0  0
>  0 1 0   18628 13636  104   0   0   0  65 528   0  86   0  556  195 252  0
> 0  0
>  1 1 0   18628 12312    1   0   0   0   1   0   0  64   0  441   93 207  0
> 0  0
> 
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