From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 1 16:52:55 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C75C106568B for ; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 16:52:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-hardware@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CDAB8FC17 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 16:52:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NbzW8-0004VW-IC for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:52:52 +0100 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:52:52 +0100 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:52:52 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:52:29 +0100 Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <65BCAB515656D34AA48B0E713966CC83046A64@MBX021-E2-NJ-5.exch021.domain.local> <65BCAB515656D34AA48B0E713966CC8305F7A8@MBX021-E2-NJ-5.exch021.domain.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20100118 Thunderbird/3.0 In-Reply-To: <65BCAB515656D34AA48B0E713966CC8305F7A8@MBX021-E2-NJ-5.exch021.domain.local> Sender: news Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.0, Intel Xeon E5530, Dell R410, only 2 cores available X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:52:55 -0000 On 02/01/10 17:37, Hoang V.D. | Creative Solutions GmbH wrote: > Thank you. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- >> hardware@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Ivan Voras >> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 3:41 PM >> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org >> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.0, Intel Xeon E5530, Dell R410, only 2 cores available >> >> Your CPU count is wrong. The topology might be wrong for Nehalems but it >> would be wrong in a different way. >> >> Before you can debug the FreeBSD side you should first make the hw.ncpu >> setting equal the "right" total number of logical CPUs available, e.g. >> by configuring your BIOS, upgrading your BIOS, etc. >> >> After you configure your BIOS to recognize all the CPUs, you can proceed, if >> necessary, to debug the CPU topology. > > Unfortunately we are ourselves over 900km away from the server. It was shipped > to the datacenter and we had no sight of it. We have asked the guys at the > hosting company to look at the BIOS last week to see if HT is disabled and they > said there is no such option, only the option to turn on/off VT. > > Their Technical Guidebook for the R410 doesn't say much, neither > > http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/PowerEdge_R410_Technical_Guidebook.pdf > > Just a mention about "Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) support" as a feature > of the BIOS. We also find this doc about how they enumerate the cores and threads > > http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/shared/dual_core_dell_os.pdf > > but that was pretty old and only applies to dual-core. > > We will ask the guys at the datacenter to carefully check the BIOS again. Like > I wrote, we didn't touch the settings preset by Dell. > > Thank you for your help. While they are checking, tell them to try and upgrade the BIOS.