On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 07:57:52PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Sep 10), stan said:
> > On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 11:57:05AM -0400, Bob Hall wrote:
> > > On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 08:56:31AM -0400, stan wrote:
> > > > Can someone explain to me why top's handling of multi processor
> > > > status display is different on FreeBSD, than it is on Linux?
> > > 
> > > Possible reasons why open source software X doesn't have feature Y:
> >
> >  -- Long discussion of open source philosophy dleted ---
> > 
> > Once upon a time, when people posted on lists like this, they got
> > well reasoned technical answers.
> > 
> > The question I was really asking, is if there is a technical reason
> > for this difference (eg difernt sturctures for obatining the
> > information in the 2 OS's). The reason that i feel this is an
> > apropriate place to ask such a question, is that top is NOT a port,
> > but is provided by the base OS in FreeBSD.
> 
> FreeBSD does not currently track per-cpu usage, only a total.
> 
Thanks you. That's the answer I was looking for.

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Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity.
(Dennis Ritchie)
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