Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 16:39:06 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi> Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange systat output on SMP FreeBSD 5.0-Current Message-ID: <20030515213906.GO23782@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <068401c31b23$9c4d1ad0$c02a40c1@PETEX31> References: <XFMail.20030515164618.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <068401c31b23$9c4d1ad0$c02a40c1@PETEX31>
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In the last episode (May 15), Petri Helenius said: > > 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. > > > That would be quite bad because that's the only place I know where > you can actually see per-CPU utilization. (of the bundled utilities) per-cpu utilization should be even across all CPUs, since our schedulers do not do process affinity and are not HT-aware. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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