That's nice, but that wasn't the question. 'cpu-allocation for the processes' does NOT
mean LOAD.
Mark
Merijn Vogel wrote:
> There is a top and ps (which shows cpu-allocation for the processes).
> Can't find the url, one place to find it is at my homepage:
>
> http://web.inter.nl.net/users/merijnv/procps-1.2.9-SMP-GW.patched.tgz
>
> So long,
>
> -- Merijn
>
> On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Mark Garlanger wrote:
>
> > Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 19:09:10 +0000
> > From: Mark Garlanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Darren Nickerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Juan Jose Casero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: SMP Linux processor loads
> >
> > 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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