SCHED_4BSD: More than 1 process running on UP machine?

Jeff Roberson jroberson at chesapeake.net
Sun Jul 1 11:12:20 UTC 2007


On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I upgraded to -CURRENT and am running with SCHED_BSD on an UP machine
> (where ULE has no advantage over BSD, right?)

ULE has markedly better interactivity.

>
> Anyway, I never noticed top(1) under 6.x reporting more than 1 running
> process, which is only natural, considering this is an UP machine. Under
> 7.x however, top(1) reports up to 7-8 running processes, depending on
> how much stuff is going on.

I suspect this is showing processes on the runqueue since top is the only 
thing that is running anyhow.

Jeff

>
> Is top(1) lying, or is/was my assumption about UP wrong all along?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Ulrich Spoerlein
>
> PS: whats the new state 'ucond' all about?
> -- 
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