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Date:      Mon, 20 Sep 1999 15:32:50 -0700
From:      "Kelsey Cummings" <kc@neteze.com>
To:        "Christopher Michaels" <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>, "'John E. Hein'" <jhein@timing.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CPU times not displaying in 'top'
Message-ID:  <002d01bf03b8$128fe830$33f9c9d0@neteze.com>
References:  <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105C7B@site2s1>

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Thanks...  (apm is disabled..)

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Kelsey Cummings
System Administrator
NetEase, Inc.
kc@neteze.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>
To: 'John E. Hein' <jhein@timing.com>; Kelsey Cummings <kc@neteze.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 2:43 PM
Subject: RE: CPU times not displaying in 'top'


> 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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