From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 2 00:16:53 2009 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 B7FF2106566C for ; Sat, 2 May 2009 00:16:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from duane@cheekymonkey.us) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B59F8FC22 for ; Sat, 2 May 2009 00:16:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from duane@cheekymonkey.us) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 24so1743419wfg.7 for ; Fri, 01 May 2009 17:16:53 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.125.11 with SMTP id x11mr1070201wfc.40.1241221501216; Fri, 01 May 2009 16:45:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5e8ad96d0905011618x50c9466fpf6758c8ba3bee2b8@mail.gmail.com> References: <5e8ad96d0905011618x50c9466fpf6758c8ba3bee2b8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 19:45:00 -0400 Message-ID: <5e8ad96d0905011645s699e243bgb0a335377aef49e0@mail.gmail.com> From: Duane To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Running SMP kernel but only one cpu 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: Sat, 02 May 2009 00:16:54 -0000 I have a fairly new install of 6.4, done over the 'net, on this old Micron full tower dual PPro-180. The SMP kernel was automagically installed: # uname -a FreeBSD poobah.legomenon.org 6.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 26 12:11:16 UTC 2008 root@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 Performance was *rather* sluggish so I tried to ascertain if both processors were running: # dmesg | grep cpu cpu0 on motherboard Q1. Is there a better way to establish how many processors are running? Q2. Do I need to specify, say in rc.conf, that I *want* SMP to be enabled? Best regards, -- Duane