From owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 09:26:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9394237B401 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 09:26:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA68943F85 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 09:26:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h4FGQFHU077387; Thu, 15 May 2003 11:26:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 11:26:15 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Killing Message-ID: <20030515162615.GG23782@dan.emsphone.com> References: <00f801c31afc$94250240$7b07000a@int.mediasurface.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00f801c31afc$94250240$7b07000a@int.mediasurface.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-BETA X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange systat output on SMP FreeBSD 5.0-Current X-BeenThere: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD SMP implementation group List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 16:26:20 -0000 In the last episode (May 15), Killing said: > /0 /10 /20 /30 /40 /50 /60 /70 /80 /90 /100 > 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 + ? 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