Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 15:12:20 +0100 (CET) From: "Erik H. Bakke" <erik@habatech.no> To: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, Brent York <york@mediarack.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Subject: Re: *sigh* Message-ID: <XFMail.000317151220.erik@habatech.no> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003161733070.17811-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com>
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On 17-Mar-00 Doug Barton wrote: > On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > >> > It has come to my attention that even with FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE >> > SMP support, I do not see two processes marked runnable at any >> > given time. >> >> I don't know how you're looking at this, but I have always seen >> this to be the case in "top". > > [snipping] > > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND > 74491 username 76 1 1560K 1212K RUN 0 0:01 36.90% 3.52% miva > 74500 username 42 1 1600K 1244K RUN 1 0:00 0.00% 0.00% miva > > Also, when state is CPUN doesn't that mean that the process is running on > cpu N? > Some Asus boards I've seen has some issues with the BIOS that generate problems for SMP. My P2B-DS was one of these boards, and I had to upgrade the BIOS to the newest revision available from their web-pages to solve the problem. Also, the new BIOS was required to recognize the PIII processors on this board. If there is a newer BIOS available for the board, I'd recommend trying the upgrade. If there's not, I would suspect a HW problem. Personally I have nothing but good experience in running SMP systems with Asus MB's once I got the BIOS right. ===========================+================+=============================== Erik H. Bakke | | To be or not to be... Senior Consultant/Developer|erik@habatech.no| Is simply a question of Habatech AS | | binary logic ===========================+================+============================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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