newbie questions on xfce

[Don Christensen]

I believe that "System Load Monitor" shows a combined load average for
both processors.  On my dual core system, if one core is 100% busy
(some process goes into an infinite loop, for example), the CPU load
bar goes half way up.

-Don

David Mohr wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Globe Trotter <itsme_410 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> --- On Fri, 5/30/08, Kok, Auke <sofar at foo-projects.org> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Kok, Auke <sofar at foo-projects.org>
>>> Subject: Re: newbie questions on xfce
>>> To: itsme_410 at yahoo.com, "XFCE general discussion list" <xfce at xfce.org>
>>> Date: Friday, May 30, 2008, 2:45 PM
>>> Globe Trotter wrote:
>>>  > (2) I have a dual-core processor, however only one
>>> shows up in the CPU
>>>> (proc/mem/swap) display. How do I get both to show up?
>>> Two do show up when I
>>>> use xosview. Actually, can I bind xosview to the
>>> panel?
>>>
>>> does this have anything to do with Xfce?
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks again for your e-mail!
>>
>> Sorry, I was perhaps not very clear. I am able to see two processors when I use xosview or gkrellm. However, when I add the "System Load Monitor" on the xfce panel, I do not get two display for the two cpu cores. That is my question.
> 
> I just tried it on a dual core, and I also only get a display for one
> CPU. I recommend you use CPU graph instead / in addition, which works
> just fine for multiprocessor systems.
> 
> ~David
> 
>> Many thanks,
>> Trotter
>>
>>> if your second processor is not showing up in `cat
>>> /proc/cpuinfo` then you have a
>>> misconfigured kernel.

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Don Christensen       Senior Software Development Engineer
djc at cisco.com         Cisco Systems             Austin, TX
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