system monitors and SMP on FreeBSD

Marco Beishuizen marco at beishuizen.info
Thu Mar 30 19:15:44 UTC 2006


On stardate Thu, 30 Mar 2006, the wise pete wright entered:

> On 3/30/06, Marco Beishuizen <marco at beishuizen.info> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a system monitor for freebsd that supports SMP? I've tried some
> > (gkrellm, xosview, xsysinfo) but they all show only one cpu. Or is there a
> > way to enable SMP in these monitors?
> >
> 
> if you have an SMP kernel, and multiple CPU's systat will should show
> load on a per-cpu basis.  xosview should as well, although i'm not
> sure how you compiled/installed it.

I have a SMP kernel (dmesg shows 4 cpu's because of hyperthreading). Systat 
shows all cpu's but as a system monitor I like xosview more :)

I installed xosview from the ports but couldn't find an option to enable 
smp.

Marco

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