Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:11:58 +0300 From: Apatewna <apatewna@yahoo.gr> To: fatman@nospam.crackmonkey.nospam.us Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP only detects one CPU - help? Message-ID: <4628F45E.1010909@yahoo.gr> In-Reply-To: <4628E6ED.7020602@crackmonkey.us> References: <4628E6ED.7020602@crackmonkey.us>
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O/H Adam J Richardson έγραψε: > Hi all, > > Firstly, apologies for the length of this. It's my first mailing list > posting, so I hope I'm not breaching any etiquette codes. Also I've only > been using FreeBSD for a couple of years, so I'm still very new to the > system. Maybe you should use FreeBSD more often :) > I have recently become the proud owner of a second-hand HP NetServer > e800, which has two Pentium-III class [686] CPUs in it. I've installed > 6.2-RELEASE-p3 [which is also referred to as 6.2-STABLE, is that > correct?] and built myself a SMP kernel. I'm sure it's a SMP kernel, > because the config file has "options SMP" in it and while running it > "sysctl kern.smp.maxcpus" returns 16. The BIOS says there are two CPUs, > so I guess the second CPU is in fine condition and ready to go. As of FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE, SMP systems are correctly detected and the SMP kernel is used, no need to rebuild kernel. I have such an old hardware arround (Dual P3@500) and 6.2 RELEASE loaded the SMP kernel as expected. Same thing on shiny new Core2Duo machines. Try a reinstall, if this a testing machine and you'll notice that the SMP kernel is loaded by default, unless some other strange hardware problem exists. -- RTFM and STFW before anything bad happens _________________________________________ Thanos Rizoulis Electronic Computing Systems Engineer Larissa, Greece FreeBSD/PCBSD user
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