Re: Part II: Running SMP kernel but only one cpu

2009-05-04 Thread Duane
On 5/5/09, Tim Judd wrote: > Would you try enabling the IDE channels and see if the IRQ storms stop? There is joy in Mudville. I couldn't really change the IDE settings that much since there are no IDE drives in this thing. The channels are all on 'auto' and that yields a "NONE" for each of t

Re: Part II: Running SMP kernel but only one cpu

2009-05-04 Thread Tim Judd
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Duane wrote: > On 5/4/09, Tim Judd wrote: > > > IRQ15 is typically your secondary IDE controller; but due to PCI (or > E-ISA) > > plug&play, including the PnP the BIOS may setup, lots of others can be on > > that bus too. > > This box has one SCSI card running tw

Re: Part II: Running SMP kernel but only one cpu

2009-05-04 Thread Duane
On 5/4/09, Tim Judd wrote: > IRQ15 is typically your secondary IDE controller; but due to PCI (or E-ISA) > plug&play, including the PnP the BIOS may setup, lots of others can be on > that bus too. This box has one SCSI card running two SCSI drives. The IDE's are disabled in the BIOS. But the SCS

Re: Part II: Running SMP kernel but only one cpu

2009-05-04 Thread Tim Judd
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Duane wrote: > The bios in this old Micron dual PPro-180 full tower antique only > initializes the second CPU if the machine is cold-booted. A simple > 'reboot' results in a single processor machine regardless of the > kernel that is launched. This fact -- unknown

Re: Part II: Running SMP kernel but only one cpu

2009-05-04 Thread Adam Vande More
Duane wrote: The bios in this old Micron dual PPro-180 full tower antique only initializes the second CPU if the machine is cold-booted. A simple 'reboot' results in a single processor machine regardless of the kernel that is launched. This fact -- unknown to me before last night -- was the sour

Part II: Running SMP kernel but only one cpu

2009-05-04 Thread Duane
The bios in this old Micron dual PPro-180 full tower antique only initializes the second CPU if the machine is cold-booted. A simple 'reboot' results in a single processor machine regardless of the kernel that is launched. This fact -- unknown to me before last night -- was the source of a great d

Re: Running SMP kernel but only one cpu

2009-05-02 Thread Duane
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Diego F. Arias R. wrote: > Are you running generic or custom kernel? Generic SMP: # uname -a FreeBSD poobah.legomenon.org 6.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 26 12:11:16 UTC 2008 r...@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 -- Duane

Re: Running SMP kernel but only one cpu

2009-05-02 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Duane wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Adam Vande More > wrote: > >> top should display a C column with a number that represents which cpu the >> process is running on.  IIRC, ACPI must be enabled for SMP to work, and ACPI >> didn't work on my MB until 7

Re: Running SMP kernel but only one cpu

2009-05-01 Thread Duane
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > top should display a C column with a number that represents which cpu the > process is running on.  IIRC, ACPI must be enabled for SMP to work, and ACPI > didn't work on my MB until 7.0. Using the ACPI boot option doesn't seem to change t

Re: Running SMP kernel but only one cpu

2009-05-01 Thread Adam Vande More
Duane wrote: I have a fairly new install of 6.4, done over the 'net, on this old Micron full tower dual PPro-180. The SMP kernel was automagically installed: # uname -a FreeBSD poobah.legomenon.org 6.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 26 12:11:16 UTC 2008 r...@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr

Running SMP kernel but only one cpu

2009-05-01 Thread Duane
I have a fairly new install of 6.4, done over the 'net, on this old Micron full tower dual PPro-180. The SMP kernel was automagically installed: # uname -a FreeBSD poobah.legomenon.org 6.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 26 12:11:16 UTC 2008 r...@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sy