On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 03:32:20PM +1100, Simon Burge wrote:
> Charlie Allom wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > is it possible to see the seperate loads on the two procs I have on
> > this GENERIC.MPDEBUG machine?
> 
> The load average values are generated from a global queue, not a per-cpu
> queue.  The user/nice/system/idle counts are kept per-cpu but only
> easily accessable as a total value.  It's just a SMOP (in the kernel) to
> get these as per-cpu figures if we are really interested in doing this.

Does this spell out maybe someone being _able_ to write a tool ala
Solaris mpstat?

> > PS. what are some cool tricks I can play to see both of them at work?
> > I went out and bought this little dual proc machine to play it against
> > my others to see the code grow ..
> 
> Which your box doing things ~twice as fast doesn't count?  :-)

hehehe Maybe I am sploit by my PowerPC cpu's. This dual 433 x86 seems
really chuggy.

I'll look into it :)

Cheers,
  C.
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