wow... thats much nicer output. ok, i'll settle down now. i've been following instructions in a linuxworld article on HT and linux. all good. thanks heaps for putting my mind at ease. Takis On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 01:43, Alexandr Malusek wrote:

Takis Diakoumis writes:

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the issue i'm having is that using top from the terminal only gives me one logical CPU as shown below:

top - 23:48:14 up 1:27, 3 users, load average: 0.09, 0.08, 0.03 Tasks: 84 total, 2 running, 82 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 1.9% user, 0.6% system, 0.0% nice, 97.5% idle Mem: 1032264k total, 303264k used, 729000k free, 44332k buffers Swap: 1052216k total, 0k used, 1052216k free, 129608k cached

It's OK, top doesn't list the number of CPUs. The following is from a dual CPU system with the HT switched on:

top - 15:40:43 up 1 day, 4:53, 10 users, load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00 Tasks: 128 total, 1 running, 127 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.2% user, 0.2% system, 0.0% nice, 99.6% idle Mem: 2068660k total, 1752060k used, 316600k free, 162524k buffers Swap: 2097136k total, 0k used, 2097136k free, 665544k cached

Use "cat /proc/cpuinfo" to check how many CPUs the OS sees. (In my case 4 CPUs are listed).

-- A.M.

wow... this is so cool... that worked... having a good linux day now. newbie trying to learn... thanks heaps... Takis On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 01:55, Anders Johansson wrote:

On Tuesday 13 January 2004 15:43, Alexandr Malusek wrote:

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It's OK, top doesn't list the number of CPUs.

It does if you hit "1" (the number one) while top is running