Re: SMP Kernel question.

Bryn Paul Arnold Jones (bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 5 May 1996 14:55:30 +0100 (BST)


On Thu, 2 May 1996, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Is there a top/uptime/ps for the SMP kernel? If not, is anyone working
> > on it? If not, can anyone give me some hints on how to get started?
>
> Same as for uniprocessor. Ok you may find 200% system time being used or
> similar but then thats also how stuff like OSx report it
>
> Alan
>
Hmm, can a you use 200% (or more if you've >2 proccessors), with a single
process ? I'd only expect >100% on multithreaded process that's split
across 2 or more of the processors (ie current pthreads wouldn't do
this). Or am I way off ?
Bryn

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