cpu usage in 7.0
Kris Kennaway
kris at FreeBSD.org
Fri Feb 22 23:13:08 UTC 2008
Barney Cordoba wrote:
> I have a dual core system running 7.0 and I can't get
> top to show more than 100% usage no matter how I
> hammer it. My MAC shows over 100% often, but its not
> clear if top is averaging the 2 cpus or just not going
> over 100, or just showing 1 of the cpus.
100% in FreeBSD means "all of your CPUs are completely active". It is
hard to exceed this amount :-)
> Is there any way to show the per-cpu usage to get an
> idea of the overall efficiency of sharing? Are there
> any tools that can be used to monitor this? What
> exactly is top showing?
Not in 7.0. 8.0 supports top -P and vmstat -P
Kris
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