[plug] SMP queries ...

[Andrew McMeikan]

Hi Trevor,
For the monitoring you could try lcdproc.  Its meant to output to an LCD but
has a text driver so you could dump to a file.
anyway you could hack it into what you need.

    cya,    Andrew...
http://members.xoom.com/andrewmuck/MP3.htm

----- Original Message -----
From: Trevor Phillips <phillips at central.murdoch.edu.au>
To: PLUG Mailing List <plug at linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 1999 11:09 AM
Subject: [plug] SMP queries ...


> Two queries:
>
> Any suggestions on how to set up a system (pref Debian) with both an SMP
> kernel, and a non-SMP kernel, with modules support? My understanding is
the
> modules need to be recompiled for SMP/Non-SMP, and the default location
for
> them is /lib/modules/<kernel version>/*, which makes no distinction
between SMP
> and Non-SMP. Is there an easy way to have two Module dirs for the same
kernel
> vers and tell the kernel to use a different one?
>
> Secondly, any ideas on monitoring CPU activity? Basically, I'm after "top"
or
> similar meter (pref that doesn't require XWin for logging), which logs to
a
> file and can display an analysis/graph of stored entries... I'm after the
> utilisation of SMP when running certain apps (Ok, so it's Quake3Arena
Demo,
> mainly. ^_^), where watching a procmeter in a window doesn't cut it.
>
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