Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 09:37:54 +0300 From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Strange systat output on SMP FreeBSD 5.0-Current Message-ID: <3EC48742.2090609@he.iki.fi> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030515172722.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <XFMail.20030515172722.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: >On 15-May-2003 Petri Helenius wrote: > =20 > >>>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. >>> >>> =20 >>> >>That would be quite bad because that=B4s the only place I know where yo= u can >>actually >>see per-CPU utilization. (of the bundled utilities) >> =20 >> > >top(1) > > =20 > Where exactly? This is from an SMP machine: 26 processes: 2 running, 24 sleeping CPU states: 14.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.2% system, 19.5% interrupt, 66.3% = idle Mem: 165M Active, 582M Inact, 205M Wired, 44M Cache, 112M Buf, 5560K Free= Here is "pigs" from the same: root idle: cpu0 XXXXXXXXXXXXX <idle> XXXXXXXXXXXX root idle: cpu1 XXXXXXXXXXXX root rxxxxxx XXXXX root irq18: em2 XXX root irq17: em1 XXX Pete
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