On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:33 PM, xateayam <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > I think it is already, can you run top and press "1". That will show the usage per cpu, or you can use the mpstat command.
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