Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:24:25 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: Tom Everett <tom@khubla.com> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP Problem on IBM x330 Server Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0901271224h3b77d59et88fc032857365700@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <497F67B0.70609@khubla.com> References: <497F4857.1060005@khubla.com> <243FF450-D8B0-491D-A341-8758F8EF20D4@gmail.com> <497F67B0.70609@khubla.com>
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On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Tom Everett <tom@khubla.com> wrote: > ok, two problems. I don't remember that I had the option to explicitly > install an SMP kernl, and looking back here > (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html) , I > don't see that sysinstall gave me that option. Additionally, I have the > kernel source and I see that in GENERIC, SMP is enabled. Am I missing > something? > > > Garrett Cooper wrote: >> >> On Jan 27, 2009, at 9:45 AM, Tom Everett wrote: >> >>> >>> I originally posted this to "FreeBSD Questions" but was told that the >>> ACPI list might be more appropriate. >>> >>> I'm running the "stock" FreeBSD 7.1 kernel on an IBM x330 machine. The >>> machine has two physical processors but it seems that FreeBSD 7.1 only sees >>> one. I downloaded the kernel source and it seems that the GENERIC kernel >>> has SMP installed. Is there something else I can try? Thanks in advance >>> for your wisdom. >>> >>> $ sysctl -a | grep cpu >>> kern.threads.virtual_cpu: 1 >>> kern.ccpu: 0 >>> kern.smp.cpus: 1 >>> kern.smp.maxcpus: 16 >>> debug.cpufreq.verbose: 0 >>> debug.cpufreq.lowest: 0 >>> debug.kdb.stop_cpus: 1 >>> debug.stop_cpus_with_nmi: 1 >>> debug.PMAP1changedcpu: 0 >>> hw.ncpu: 1 >>> hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: C1 >>> machdep.cpu_idle_hlt: 1 >>> machdep.hlt_cpus: 0 >>> dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU >>> dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu >>> dev.cpu.0.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU1 >>> dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0 >>> dev.cpu.0.%parent: acpi0 >>> dev.cpu.0.cx_supported: C1/0 >>> dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest: C1 >>> dev.cpu.0.cx_usage: 100.00% >> >> Did you install the SMP kernel from sysinstall? There's a difference. >> Thanks, >> -Garrett Nope -- that would be it. Is one CPU not active in the BIOS? Do you have the latest BIOS flashed from IBM? Does a Linux disk see both CPU's? Cheers, -Garrett
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