[luau] CPU states in top?

[Scott Foulk]

I was thinking the same, but only you have access to such nice toys 
Charles, so I can't check...

What kind of stats is tops reporting vs. whats on the system?  This may 
clue you in to whats going on with the Xeon's.



At 11:24 AM 6/6/2003 -1000, you wrote:
> > Charles Lockhart wrote:
> > > I just got a 1u rack mount dual Xeon system from these guys:
> > >
> > > http://www.swt.com/thin4.html
> > >
> > > I was looking at top and noticed that it lists 4 CPU states, where I'd
> > > generally figure there'd be one per CPU.  Any ideas why this would be? I
> > > opened it up to be sure, and yep, there's only 2 CPUs.
> > Any chance it could have something to do with the Xeon's
> > "Hyperthreading" technology?  I think I read something somewhere
> > (helpful, I know) that mentioned that the Linux kernel can treat the P4s
> > with hyperthreading as virtual dual processors.
>
>Windows reports 2 per CPU as well with the Zeons.  With a dual CPU box you
>will see 4 in the task manager.
>
>-Matt
>
>
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