From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 23 18:36:23 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4502016A400 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:36:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatman.uk@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D195213C46E for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:36:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatman.uk@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so5777ugh for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:36:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=fgjQpPeIe3qHiHkg6VTfDqJg4R0D2S2HeFogrBIaB5K8QfQrtgZ0nQKMe6EvvBC7ksLVsaRxvX9HGHOQRWzozox9F8PxhuQ356S3GkqRMp58E4uZr50bMZf2VuRQtNfqsVJGG+08c/xni7iJzYlrQrPRCjDxq4yuzxGkxN0RQ2w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=oe95XGYY37H4TdREq6MrzBeVYHKjT2mtnXNqNkPHCRilkb3qGC5HWYUDz6yOyAFmZu2Y+GKI2nmo9GepmOa7R8/+EuOO8/wlLJr4fzI6j9foTIgQCO1zjLfna1/SrEfLV/D+aYC1gdwoXAeYvUP2BI2CkxAcvCAaYL65UbFvRwc= Received: by 10.67.117.18 with SMTP id u18mr5341636ugm.1177353381651; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:36:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from monju-bosatsu.dreamtrack.dnsalias.com ( [86.18.88.217]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id j34sm42431ugc.2007.04.23.11.36.20; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:36:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <462CFCA3.9070106@crackmonkey.us> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:36:19 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Adam J Richardson Subject: Re: SMP only detects one CPU - help? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: fatman@nospam.crackmonkey.nospam.us List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:36:23 -0000 > Message: 15 > Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:11:58 +0300 > From: Apatewna > Subject: Re: SMP only detects one CPU - help? > To: fatman@nospam.crackmonkey.nospam.us > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <4628F45E.1010909@yahoo.gr> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-7; format=flowed > > Maybe you should use FreeBSD more often :) Absolutely. I'm using it more and more. It's my goal to become completely free of certain operating systems beginning with W and other commercial software. I haven't had the guts to plunge straight into FreeBSD, but I'm gradually achieving my goal by parallel upgrades. > 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. I didn't know that. How handy. Actually I'm not sure how "options SMP" got in my kernel config file. It's not an old kernel config file and this is my first SMP system. Oh well. so I like to have several kernels in my /boot anyway - kernel, kernel.old, kernel.generic and kernel.debug. I don't like to run kernel.generic knowing there's lots of stuff in there I'm just not using, and I like having kernel.debug around so I can backtrace kernel panics. I'll have a go with all my kernels, see if one of them boots the unusable AP. I'm off for a couple of weeks though, so I might not respond for a while. Thanks, Adam J Richardson