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Date:      Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:42:13 +0200
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Randall Stewart <rrs@cisco.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Brad Penoff <penoff@cs.ubc.ca>, Janardhan Iyengar <iyengar@conncoll.edu>
Subject:   Re: CPU utilization
Message-ID:  <86hcrlzxfe.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <461E0078.3050001@cisco.com> (Randall Stewart's message of "Thu,  12 Apr 2007 05:48:40 -0400")
References:  <461E0078.3050001@cisco.com>

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Randall Stewart <rrs@cisco.com> writes:
> I have three machines.
>
> 1) stewart - running 7.0 (2.8gig p4 dual core)
> 2) bsd1    - running 7.0 (2.8gig Xeon Hyperthreaded)
> 3) bsd2    - running 6.2 (2.4gig Xeon Hyperthreaded)
>
> Now if I run tests that max out cpu (at least I think
> they do).. I see <1> or <2> drag down to 1% idle/ even
> 0 %idle.
>
> However <3> never drops below 50% idle.. it preforms
> a lot slower too.. which I expect since it is somewhat
> of an older processor.. but in running say
> top -S I see CPU 1 always running the idle process...

By default, 6.2 doesn't schedule processes on the virtual core on a
hyperthreading CPU.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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