Strange systat output on SMP FreeBSD 5.0-Current

Petri Helenius pete at he.iki.fi
Thu May 15 13:50:32 PDT 2003


> The <idle> is not a process, it's a measure of how idle the system is.
> It's generated from the same thing %idle in top(1) comes from.
> Probably systat should ignore the actual idle processes.
>
That would be quite bad because that´s the only place I know where you can
actually
see per-CPU utilization. (of the bundled utilities)

Pete



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