Hello, I'm getting the ball rolling in the learning dept. and need some help. I've loaded Gentoo on a dual P3 machine that is now a LOT slower after finishing the install than it was durring the install. I want to see if both Procs are being used, how much is being used, memory available/used.. just a basic system performance monitor.

I'm working exclusivly from the command line and have 0/Zero packages installed currently (looking to build an internet server from scratch).

I'm sure that this is available in the basic functionality of the kernel but I can't, for the life of me, find any information about it. Help is much appreciated (as always).. and TIA.

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Err... okay, I found "TOP", which gives me most of what I'm looking for - but can I be sure both procs are enabled/working?

Okay, and now I found that if I cat /proc/cpuinfo it tells me what I've got. Only 1 CPU is enabled... great, need to figgure out how to fix that.

Guess I answered my own dumb questions (funny that it happenes within minutes of posting a question, eh?)

check out
top

and for a pretty gui
gkrellm

to see if both processors are being used
open a terminal and run
cat /proc/cpuinfo

My output looks like this. If you don't see
info for 2 processors you are only using 1
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 6
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 1194.655
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 2359.29

processor : 1
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 6
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 1194.655
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 2383.87