On Friday 17 March 2006 09:04, Tom Daly wrote: > Hi, > I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 Release (amd64) on Dell Poweredge 2850s. So far, > so good. I'm doing a pretty vanilla install of things, enabling SMP in the > kernel, and that's pretty much it. This server has 2 EM64T CPUs in it. > > When looking at top, CPU 1 rarely shows up with processes on it. systat > does show it idle most of the time. Why is this? Why do processes land on > CPU 0, 2, and 3 in most cases. > > Also, by setting machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1, CPU 1 starts taking > process onto it.
Because CPU 1 is a hyperthread. So is CPU 3 for that matter. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
