On Monday 26 April 2010 5:59:19 am oklahoma wrote: > Hubert Tournier wrote: > > > > I forgot to specify that the system is a remote dedicated server, for which > > i have no physical access. > > > > I could rent a virtual KVM in order to try to access its BIOS settings, but > > i'm not sure this would work. > > > > Any other software solution? > if the server is dedicated entirely to you, ask your colo support to > disable it for you. > other thing i find was > > machdep.hlt_cpus > > is suppose to tell the scheduler that there is extra cores but not to use them. > try to enable and see with top is there app that use logical cores.
You can manually disable any CPU (except for the boot CPU), via 'hint.lapic.X.disabled=1' in loader.conf. You can find the APIC IDs to use in place of 'X' in dmesg. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-smp To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
