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Date:      Thu, 04 May 2006 19:47:19 -0700
From:      Darren Pilgrim <darren.pilgrim@bitfreak.org>
To:        Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Core Duo - only one cpu being used
Message-ID:  <445ABCB7.5020301@bitfreak.org>
In-Reply-To: <445AB56F.8090907@centtech.com>
References:  <445AB56F.8090907@centtech.com>

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Eric Anderson wrote:
> Forgive me if I've missed this on a list somewhere, but My new laptop 
> with a Core Duo doesn't seem to use both CPU's.  It sees both, but I 
> never see anything on cpu 1.  Here's a top snippet:

Your top output shows a single process eating the CPU.  A single process 
can't span CPUs, so you're only going to see one CPU in use.  You need 
to do something in parallel, like make -j N where N > 1.




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