Strange systat output on SMP FreeBSD 5.0-Current

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (May 15), Killing said:
>                     /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>?

Systat probably needs to be taught how to ignore "system" processes
like top does.  You shouldn't see those four idle: processes.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com