Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 16:46:18 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Killing <killing@barrysworld.com> Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Strange systat output on SMP FreeBSD 5.0-Current Message-ID: <XFMail.20030515164618.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <00f801c31afc$94250240$7b07000a@int.mediasurface.com>
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On 15-May-2003 Killing wrote: > /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>? The <idle> is not a process, it's a measure of how idle the system is. It's generated from the same thing %idle in top(1) comes from. Probably systat should ignore the actual idle processes. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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