Darren Nickerson wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Juan Jose Casero wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Folks -
> > >
> > > Is there a way to observe the load on each cpu in an SMP linux system with
> > > kernel 2.2.13? I am curious to see how the linux kernel distributes system
> > > resources to processes. Additionally, how does Linux smp compare with say
> > > NT smp or even with Solaris x86 smp?
> > >
> > > Thanks.....
> > >
> > try top,gtop,or xosview
> >
> >
> > I think linux is still lagging behind but is improving at a high rate.
>
> Justin, as far as I can tell none of these do what the original poster was
> asking . . . ie, show the load on EACH cpu independently (at least in my distro
> - redhat-6.1). Why are so few of the userspace tools SMP-aware yet?
No tools do that, because that is not a valid statistic. The load is NOT how busy
a given processor is. It is
how many processes are ready to run. Unless you do some non-standard kernal hack
to allow you
to partition processes to a given processor (or a possible group of processors if
you have more the
2 CPUs), there is only a single queue for the system. Thus only one load for the
system.
Mark
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