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Re: make slink SMP-clean?



>>>>> "Eberhard" == Eberhard Burr <Eberhard.Burr@gmx.de> writes:

    > Hello, I've just installed slink on a dual P3 box, and all went
    > smoothly. I then fetched kernel sources and compiled a 2.2 SMP
    > kernel and installed that. Still everything smooth (except for
    > some minor no-brainers on my side). But now some commands,
    > namely top and ps show funny results like negative loads and
    > such. Are there precompiled packages somewhere to fix this or do
    > I need to recompile the affected programs?

    > kind regards, -- Eberhard Burr check
    > http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~Eberhard.Burr/publickey.asc for PGP
    > Key -- #include <stddisc.h> -- electric cookie follows Where you
    > stand depends on where you sit.  -- Rufus Miles, HEW

I'm using slink with a 2.2.10 SMP kernel, and top (from procps
1:1.2.9-3) works just fine:

 10:36am  up 5 days, 14 min,  1 user,  load average: 2.05, 2.04, 2.01
75 processes: 72 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 142.2% user, 57.3% system, 124.1% nice,  0.0% idle
Mem:  257876K av, 244436K used,  13440K free,  47824K shrd,  94092K buff
Swap: 128516K av,   3208K used, 125308K free                 67888K cached

  PID USER      SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 6433 preyern   1944 1944   524 R N  96.1  0.7  1021m slave3
 6432 preyern   1944 1944   524 R N  95.2  0.7  1021m slave3
14667 preyern    748  748   572 R     5.7  0.2   0:00 top 
 .
 .
 .

Maybe you need to upgrade your procps package?

HTH,
Norris

-- 
Dr. Norris Preyer                   preyern@cofc.edu
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy      (843) 953-7997 (voice)
College of Charleston               (843) 953-4824 (fax)
Charleston, SC  29424               http://galaxy.cofc.edu/


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