Please confirm: top(1) cpu time broken on FreeBSD 6.1 (RELEASE/STABLE) SMP ?

[Chuck Swiger]

Hi, Martin--

Martin Blapp wrote:
[ ...test program to create load... ]
> CPU states: 50.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt, 50.0% 
> idle

You've probably got HTT disabled by sysctl rather than in the BIOS.  In that 
case, top "sees" that your system claims to have 4 CPUs, but you're only going 
to schedule tasks on 2 of them.

Turning HTT off in the BIOS rather than via the sysctl would probably make 
top's view of your system more sensible...

-- 
-Chuck