Strange systat output on SMP FreeBSD 5.0-Current

Christopher Arnold chris at terrabee.net
Thu May 15 09:20:39 PDT 2003



On Thu, 15 May 2003, Killing wrote:

>                     /0   /10  /20  /30  /40  /50  /60  /70  /80  /90  /100
>              <idle> XXXXXXXXXX
> root     idle: cpu1 XXXXXXXXXX
> root     idle: cpu2 XXXXXXXXXX
> root     idle: cpu3 XXXXXXXXXX
> root     idle: cpu0 XXXXXXXXXX
>
> Looks rather strange to me is this right? Its a dual Xeon box which
> has hyperthreading enabled so there should be 4 cpus  how come
> there are 5 idle "processes" 1 for each cpu + <idle>?
>
Without ever used systat my first reaction was individual idle per
processor and total system idle.

Nevertheless it looks strange.

	/Chris


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