On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Killing wrote:
> > Halting them will still cause the CPUs to be detected. They just won't do
> > any useful work.
>
> Yep but the issue is that all the core admin tools are unaware of this and
> hence include the virtual cores in idle calcs etc making load monitoring
> impossi
Original Message -
From: "John-Mark Gurney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Yes 5.X is still new tech and may not run on all machines but on the ones
> > which it does ( and it runs very well here ) basic tools are required. If
> > it doesn't run on a machine your under know false impressions, if
Killing wrote this message on Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 18:47 +0100:
> I suppose the hurry is that basic utils that we use day to day like top
> and vmstat to monitor machine load cannot be trusted to give accurate
> info.
Actually, the basic tools ARE correct, there is a cpu sitting idle that
the sysa
> Well, hyperthreading can be disabled via a kernel directive, right?
>From what I've seen that was removed between 5.0 and 5.1 correct
me if Im wrong.
> > Which ever it needs someone to pick it up ASAP dont you think?
>
> Really? What's the hurry? FreeBSD 5.x isn't even bootable/installa
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Killing wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: "Doug White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > sysctl machdep.hlt_logical_cpus:
> > > machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: 1
> >
> > Halting them will still cause the CPUs to be detected. They just won't do
> > any useful work.
>
> Yep bu
- Original Message -
From: "Doug White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > sysctl machdep.hlt_logical_cpus:
> > machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: 1
>
> Halting them will still cause the CPUs to be detected. They just won't do
> any useful work.
Yep but the issue is that all the core admin tools are unaware
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Steven Hartland wrote:
> sysctl machdep.hlt_logical_cpus:
> machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: 1
Halting them will still cause the CPUs to be detected. They just won't do
any useful work.
> Relevant sections from dmesg:
> Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #0
> IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0
sysctl machdep.hlt_logical_cpus:
machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: 1
Relevant sections from dmesg:
Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #0
IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0
Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #1
Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #2
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs
cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 0, ve
