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Re: Should one CPU(Hyper-Threading) machine install SMP kernel?



On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (27/09/05 08:10), Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Bob Proulx wrote:
> > > Dick Davies wrote:
> > > > Yup, use SMP. I get 2 cpus in cpuinfo that way (although top doesn't
> > > > see them for some reason).
> > > 
> > > Have you ever run a top that lists individual processors on a 64
> > > processor machine?  I have and top is quite useless there with
> > > all of the screen being taken up by the cpu listing there is no space
> > > left for "top" processes.
> > 
> > Press "1" and top will show the CPUs individually. 
> 
> This list is brilliant :)
> 
> Little tips like this make a real difference.

Believe it or not, I found that by accident. A quick trip to the top manual
told me far more than what I'd ever know about how to make a contrieved
user interface, and did not explain what I wanted to know (WTF are those "hi"
and "si" CPU statistics).

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh



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