From owner-freebsd-smp Fri Sep 20 11:22:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B6A037B401 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 11:22:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhub.cns.ksu.edu (grunt.ksu.ksu.edu [129.130.12.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35F1843E6A for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 11:22:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beemern@ksu.edu) Received: from unix2.cc.ksu.edu (unix2.cc.ksu.edu [129.130.12.4]) by mailhub.cns.ksu.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1/mailhub+tar) with ESMTP id NAA14574 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 13:22:09 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (beemern@localhost) by unix2.cc.ksu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8KIM8r13311 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 13:22:08 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: unix2.cc.ksu.edu: beemern owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 13:22:08 -0500 (CDT) From: beemern X-X-Sender: To: Subject: RE: For those with P4 SMP problems.. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org thanks for the diff i made the (first) change; setting to 1, and dmesg gives: --snip-- real memory = 536346624 (523776K bytes) avail memory = 517992448 (505852K bytes) Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #0 IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0 Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #1 Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #2 FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 0, version: 0x00050014, at 0xfee00000 cpu1 (AP): apic id: 6, version: 0x00000000, at 0xfee00000 io0 (APIC): apic id: 2, version: 0x00178020, at 0xfec00000 io1 (APIC): apic id: 3, version: 0x00178020, at 0xfec80000 io2 (APIC): apic id: 4, version: 0x00178020, at 0xfec80400 Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc03b2000. --snip-- so theres no error, but my inclination is that its still not enabling the 2nd cpu. again, i'm not sure how to verify for SURE whether it is or not.. i've just been running top and looking for 2 cpu's running is there something in dmesg i should be looking for in particular? i'm going to try now by setting physical_cpu to 2..11 as you indicated and see what happens thanks nathan > Well, in teh above message, 6 is the APIC ID, not 1. Does it actually > lauch the other CPU? Probably not. Your change probably just made it > skip launching the CPU. What you want to do instead is something more > like this: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message