On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Tom Sightler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 09:29 -0600, Eugene Vilensky wrote: >> Sorry for top posting. Is bigsmp still around? The original poster >> says he has 8x4 cores to deal with. > > At first glance I would say the OP is not easily comprehensible. > > "I have blade server with 8 quad-core processors and RHEL 5.2 i686 > already installed." > > Since the subject says "Blade 460C" I assume he means he has an HP > BL460c. As far as I know those servers only have two physical sockets > which means that, at most, he could have 2 quad-core CPU's for a total > of 8 cores. Yup, that's right. I mean I have 2 processors of quad core physically. Sorry for the mistake.
> Or, I guess he could mean that he has 8 total quad-core processors > across multiple blades, which would really explain why the load wouldn't > be balanced across them. > I think we near a more clear cut description of the problem, and his > current setup, and exactly what he's seeing, before he's really going to > get much help. > > Also, bigsmp is no longer around in RHEL5. Redhat has significantly > reduced the total number of kernel variants to just a handful in > comparison to RHEL4. For RHEL5 32-bit I think it's just kernel, > kernel-PAE (for systems with >4GB), kernel-xen, and a debug kernel. > > Later, > Tom And what can I do to make all processors would be balanced for handling their jobs? Thank you. _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
