On 10/16/05, Chris Boot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > >Hi, > > Was I mistaken in thinking that a true SMP system and also a hyper > >threading system would show two processors in top? I am trying out a > >new HT kernel built this morning. I've enabled both SMP support and > >hyper threading support but top shows only a single processor. > > > > This is not a 'problem'. More a curiosity. > > > >1) Do SMP systems show two or more processors with top? > > > > > Yes. You may need to press '1' once you have started top to show each > processor individually. See the top manpage to see how you can set this > as the default. Also note you have to be using an SMP kernel for your > extra CPUs to be used at all, let alone seen by top...
Thanks. That worked very nicely: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ top top - 09:15:42 up 2:19, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.11, 0.12 Tasks: 83 total, 1 running, 82 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 98.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.3% hi, 1.7% si Cpu1 : 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.3% ni, 99.7% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 498608k total, 492704k used, 5904k free, 1268k buffers Swap: 1052216k total, 420k used, 1051796k free, 354712k cached Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
