Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:14:39 -0800 (PST) From: Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com> To: Christoph Mallon <christoph.mallon@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running on only some cores Message-ID: <693347.98930.qm@web63904.mail.re1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <4975B49A.5060205@gmx.de>
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--- On Tue, 1/20/09, Christoph Mallon <christoph.mallon@gmx.de> wrote:
> From: Christoph Mallon <christoph.mallon@gmx.de>
> Subject: Re: Running on only some cores
> To: barney_cordoba@yahoo.com
> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
> Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 6:25 AM
> Barney Cordoba schrieb:
> > Can FreeBSD be configured to only run on N cores? So
> for example, if I have an 8 core system, can it be
> configured in loader.conf or through a simple hack to only
> run on 2 cores?
> >
> > We're testing various configs, and its not
> terribly convenient to keep swapping out CPUs.
>
> man 4 smp
> look for machdep.hlt_cpus
I've tried various settings for this but the system still launches all 4 cpus
machdep.hlt_cpus="0x7"
machdep.hlt_cpus="1"
machedp.hlt_cpus="0xC"
all result in 4 cpus being lauched. What is the trick?
Barney
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