On Thursday 09 September 2004 15:12, Nick Smith wrote: > the second question is how can you tell if you are using both cpus?
The best way to check is by looking at /proc/cpuinfo. > its a stock debian sparc kernel, im assuming that it would come default > with SMP enabled, am i correct? Nope. The default kernel does not include SMP support. You'll need a kernel-image-2.x.x-x-smp kernel package. > and what is > ksoftirqd in the first place? these are headless boxes X is installed (for > now) but never used. the "k" in front doesnt mean its a KDE application > does it? I presume ksoftirq is something to do with IRQs - I don't know but I'm sure somebody on here does. In this case the 'k' stands for kernel. Hope this helps, David. -- David Johnson http://www.david-web.co.uk/ http://www.penguincomputing.co.uk/
