I installed top from sunfreeware. I am running on a SS20 with 4x100
HyperSPARC CPU's. Top's show only the total for all the CPU's (as far
as I can tell). I have read the man page. Anyone know how to get it to
show the load on each CPU?

Thanks!

Sean wrote:

> I installed top from sunfreeware. I am running on a SS20 with 4x100
> HyperSPARC CPU's. Top's show only the total for all the CPU's (as far as
> I can tell). I have read the man page. Anyone know how to get it to show
> the load on each CPU?
>
> Thanks!
>

Try "mpstat 1" (change 1 with any time interval you want)

On 2004-05-02 06:16:35 -0700, Oscar del Rio <delrio@mie.utoronto.ca> said:


thanks but what i wanted to know is how to get top to show all cpu's
like it does on linux or *bsd (they have one line per cpu) that can be
toggled by hitting '1'

thanks!

> Sean wrote:
>
>> I installed top from sunfreeware. I am running on a SS20 with 4x100
>> HyperSPARC CPU's. Top's show only the total for all the CPU's (as far
>> as I can tell). I have read the man page. Anyone know how to get it to
>> show the load on each CPU?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
> Try "mpstat 1" (change 1 with any time interval you want)

On Sun, 2 May 2004 12:31:03 -0700
Sean <sahafeez.nospam@spamsucks.zaphodb.org> wrote:
>
>
> thanks but what i wanted to know is how to get top to show all cpu's
> like it does on linux or *bsd (they have one line per cpu) that can be
>

You can't, top on solaris does not support that.


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I have seen things you lusers would not believe.
I've seen Sun monitors on fire off the side of the multimedia lab.
I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate.
All these things will be lost in time, like the root partition last
week. Time to die.

On 2004-05-02 13:56:07 -0700, Barbie LeVile <barbie@gods-inc.de> said:


well that sucks.

thanks all!

> On Sun, 2 May 2004 12:31:03 -0700
> Sean <sahafeez.nospam@spamsucks.zaphodb.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> thanks but what i wanted to know is how to get top to show all cpu's
>> like it does on linux or *bsd (they have one line per cpu) that can be
>>
>
> You can't, top on solaris does not support that.

> + On 03-Maj-04 06:07:41
+Sean <sahafeez.nospam@spamsucks.zaphodb.org> wrote

>>> thanks but what i wanted to know is how to get top to show all cpu's
>>> like it does on linux or *bsd (they have one line per cpu) that can be
>>>
>>
>> You can't, top on solaris does not support that.


>well that sucks.


Maybe, but top on (for example) linux also sucks since it cant let the
processes "shift" between the CPU's like the solaris top.

I would like to have a combination of the two types in one program
that I can run on both my sparc/solaris and x86/linux SMP machines.

On Sun, 2 May 2004 01:45:34 -0700, Sean <sahafeez.nospam@spamsucks.zaphodb.org> wrote:
> I installed top from sunfreeware. I am running on a SS20 with 4x100
> HyperSPARC CPU's. Top's show only the total for all the CPU's (as far
> as I can tell). I have read the man page. Anyone know how to get it to
> show the load on each CPU?

try prstat if the system is Solaris 8 or later

--
u n d e r a c h i e v e r

u n d e r a c h i e v e r <takeme2yourNOMORESPAMPLEASE@rocketmail.com> wrote:
>> I installed top from sunfreeware. I am running on a SS20 with 4x100
>> HyperSPARC CPU's. Top's show only the total for all the CPU's (as far
>> as I can tell). I have read the man page. Anyone know how to get it to
>> show the load on each CPU?
>
> try prstat if the system is Solaris 8 or later

pre-CPU utilisation on a Solaris system is relatively useless. Processes
will move about between CPUs several times a second, so if a machine is
overall 50% busy, you'll find that the individual CPUs will basically
be 50% busy each - not half at 100% and the other half at 0%.

If you really do want the numbers, you can get the per-cpu load using
mpstat.

Scott.

"Scott Howard" <scott@hunterlink.net.au> wrote in message
news:1086402584.452445@docbert...
> u n d e r a c h i e v e r <takeme2yourNOMORESPAMPLEASE@rocketmail.com>
wrote:
> >> I installed top from sunfreeware. I am running on a SS20 with 4x100
> >> HyperSPARC CPU's. Top's show only the total for all the CPU's (as far
> >> as I can tell). I have read the man page. Anyone know how to get it to
> >> show the load on each CPU?
> >
> > try prstat if the system is Solaris 8 or later
>
> pre-CPU utilisation on a Solaris system is relatively useless. Processes
> will move about between CPUs several times a second, so if a machine is
> overall 50% busy, you'll find that the individual CPUs will basically
> be 50% busy each - not half at 100% and the other half at 0%.
>
> If you really do want the numbers, you can get the per-cpu load using
> mpstat.
>
> Scott.

Even better than that - check out DPMonitor at www.deltek.us - fully
licensed version will monitor all CPU's and a whole buncg more, while
incurring significantly less overhead in the process, (meaured at less
than 1% over time).

Regards,
Scott (a different one).