From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 14 14:52:40 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EBCD106566B for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:52:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonic2000gr@gmail.com) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.189]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26CB78FC0A for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:52:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonic2000gr@gmail.com) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k31so2921416fkk.11 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:52:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=r4WXkTME9HfpFkV9bNO6XblUFJ1i1p4aYdZyegDdf7M=; b=ReJbkRZ78ekACBe8FpX0LtfrlmDpaRJ9tAXchDymS4Pds8ka4rnM3x8OOobbtd62bU ewfq4ANEDrz68pBnVYG7Hvz+S1iyMJx74BSwtEuOBlNLp8/gsVlb489DdwoBxbfKaThS knMmikKr0+Qi3PZz5cdqEdbs7di4fQiXdfBCQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=c7xL2xNxAoLnaA5lCY4XWVNVKDgCx0c7oGuzvXYvdyjODiY89mgFMcn3l2VgR3pBuH G0rEyKt2JBOgsiVSX5+Zp3SKQmgYDjC88O063pkN0KJjwKivzdpDsfJgQkX99JNRLinj BDm4SVx8Dj2upJzFIKeFL6ke3k1XPYJznSEZw= Received: by 10.187.249.5 with SMTP id b5mr1760791fas.71.1216047158577; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:52:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from atlantis.dyndns.org ( [79.130.57.134]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p9sm8539767fkb.5.2008.07.14.07.52.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:52:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <487B6832.3000804@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:52:34 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080703) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: josh.carroll@gmail.com References: <235b80000807140357m351f801bw254aab35367682bb@mail.gmail.com> <235b80000807140547t9007b13of23a1db09085cb71@mail.gmail.com> <8cb6106e0807140743g8abe56co8e9def3b3227da05@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8cb6106e0807140743g8abe56co8e9def3b3227da05@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: tethys ocean , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Core(TM)2 Quad and TOP output X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:52:40 -0000 Josh Carroll wrote: > I'm sorry, I completely missed that you were running 6.3 and not a 7.x > release. You are running the GENERIC kernel then, and while the > processors are visible, it's only using one since you are not running > with SMP support. > > You can build the SMP kernel (basically, GENERIC + options needed for > SMP) by doing the following: > > cd /usr/src > make kernel KERNCONF=SMP > > Then reboot, and it should pick up the newly installed kernel with SMP > support. Note that this backs up your old kernel to /boot/kernel.old, > so if the new one fails to boot, at the beastie menu, you can boot > with the old kernel if necessary. > > Josh > He is already running with SMP, look at this part of his dmesg: ad10: 343399MB at ata5-master SATA300 ad12: 343399MB at ata6-master SATA300 acd0: DVDR at ata7-master SATA150 SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched! SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched! His problem lies elsewhere I'm afraid...