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Date:      Thu, 15 May 2003 11:26:15 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Killing <killing@barrysworld.com>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Strange systat output on SMP FreeBSD 5.0-Current
Message-ID:  <20030515162615.GG23782@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <00f801c31afc$94250240$7b07000a@int.mediasurface.com>
References:  <00f801c31afc$94250240$7b07000a@int.mediasurface.com>

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In the last episode (May 15), Killing said:
>                     /0   /10  /20  /30  /40  /50  /60  /70  /80  /90  /100
>              <idle> XXXXXXXXXX  
> root     idle: cpu1 XXXXXXXXXX  
> root     idle: cpu2 XXXXXXXXXX  
> root     idle: cpu3 XXXXXXXXXX  
> root     idle: cpu0 XXXXXXXXXX
> 
> Looks rather strange to me is this right? Its a dual Xeon box which
> has hyperthreading enabled so there should be 4 cpus  how come
> there are 5 idle "processes" 1 for each cpu + <idle>?

Systat probably needs to be taught how to ignore "system" processes
like top does.  You shouldn't see those four idle: processes.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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