Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-15 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jeff Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is a stock kernel config the 'fast' way to go on these CPUs? Sure wish there was an 'options I_WANNA_GO_FAST' or an 'options RICKY_BOBBY' that would just do all the right things. Still not sure which scheduler to go with.. Unless something

Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a server with 6.1 and one dual-core processor and the SMP option was built in the kernel according to the doc below, but only zeros show up in the 'C' column of top after I've rebooted with the newly compiled kernel. http://www.freebsddiary.org/smp.php I did not add APIC_IO as the doc

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a server with 6.1 and one dual-core processor and the SMP option was built in the kernel according to the doc below, but only zeros show up in the 'C' column of top after I've rebooted with the newly compiled kernel.

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Josh Carroll
up in the 'C' column of top after I've rebooted with the newly compiled kernel. Run top with the -S argument. You should then see two idle processes, one for each CPU: 11 root 1 171 52 0K 8K CPU0 0 72.1H 91.70% idle: cpu0 10 root 1 171 52 0K 8K RUN

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 15:04 -0800, Josh Carroll wrote: up in the 'C' column of top after I've rebooted with the newly compiled kernel. Run top with the -S argument. You should then see two idle processes, one for each CPU: 11 root 1 171 52 0K 8K CPU0 0 72.1H

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Juha Saarinen
On 11/15/06, Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like my hyperthreading is enabled and it is in the BIOS. I was told there was a dual-core in the machine, but not confirmed. But there should be two with HT anyway as seen, correct? This is a dmesg from an Intel D830 box: CPU:

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Jeff Mohler
My dmesg matches yours Juha.. Would enabling Hyperthreading increase any of my processing power? On 11/14/06, Juha Saarinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/15/06, Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like my hyperthreading is enabled and it is in the BIOS. I was told there was

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Juha Saarinen
On 11/15/06, Jeff Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My dmesg matches yours Juha.. Would enabling Hyperthreading increase any of my processing power? Well, if you have the D830, no, because it doesn't have HTT support. :) As a general question, the answer is yes and no. Depends on your

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 2006/11/14 15:13, Jeff Mohler seems to have typed: My dmesg matches yours Juha.. Would enabling Hyperthreading increase any of my processing power? It depends on load and so forth, most reports I saw vary from a minimal increase to a large decrease. The first few links from a google

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Jeff Mohler
I thought that since we both had HTT tags in the CPU ID, that we had it. ;) On 11/14/06, Juha Saarinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/15/06, Jeff Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My dmesg matches yours Juha.. Would enabling Hyperthreading increase any of my processing power? Well, if you

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Juha Saarinen
On 11/15/06, Jeff Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought that since we both had HTT tags in the CPU ID, that we had it. Yeah, well... that's a funny thing that tag. Got it on my first-generation 1.3GHz Pentium 4 as well. Makes me wonder if Intel had that feature in the processors very early

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Jeff Mohler
Is a stock kernel config the 'fast' way to go on these CPUs? Sure wish there was an 'options I_WANNA_GO_FAST' or an 'options RICKY_BOBBY' that would just do all the right things. Still not sure which scheduler to go with.. On 11/14/06, Juha Saarinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/15/06,

Dual-core processors and FreeBSD 6.0

2005-12-15 Thread Justin Franks
Hello, I would like to know if FreeBSD 6.0 supports dual-core CPU chips. Note, dual-core is different from dual CPU. On Jun. 13, 2005 PT Wired magazine explained a dual-core CPU as the following in a article titled The New Chips on the Block A dual-core processor differs from a single-core chip

Re: Dual-core processors and FreeBSD 6.0

2005-12-15 Thread Dev Tugnait
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 18:57 -0800, Justin Franks wrote: Hello, I would like to know if FreeBSD 6.0 supports dual-core CPU chips. Yes Note, dual-core is different from dual CPU. On Jun. 13, 2005 PT Wired magazine explained a dual-core CPU as the following in a article titled The New Chips