Top only displays 1 CPU

Kevin Kramer kramer at centtech.com
Tue Apr 17 19:26:41 UTC 2007


you want to use the toggle option "1"

from running ? in top
1,I       Toggle SMP view: '1' single/separate states; 'I' Irix/Solaris mode


Andrew Bacchi wrote the following on 04/17/07 14:25:
> Have a look at /proc/cpuinfo and see if all your cpu's show there.  If 
> so, make sure you're running the smp kernel.
>
> McDougall, Marshall (FSH) wrote:
>> Recently I started to install some new Intel servers(both blade and 2U)
>> using RHEL4U4.  When I run top, I only get a single line displayed for
>> CPU.  With all my version 3 (2.4) boxes I get however many cpu's that
>> are reported at startup.  I cannot find any reference to the change of
>> top's behavior.  Can anyone point me to a doc or explain the new
>> display?  Is there a way to see what my individual CPU's are actually
>> doing?  Thanks.
>>
>> Regards, Marshall
>




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