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Re: SMP working



On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 10:50, Robert Webb wrote:
> I just loaded up Woody on a new machine that has two 500MHZ  Pentium III 
> processors. I am trying to determine if the build I loaded is 
> recognizing both processors. My problem is I have no clue as to where to 
> check for this . I looked in the /proc directory and did a cat of cpu 
> but it only showed one processor at 500MHZ.
> 
> Am I looking in the wrong place???
> 
> Thanks,
> Robert

/proc/cpuinfo should have a section for each processor, and uname -a
should list "SMP" in the middle of the version string.

Also, the boot messages (review them with "dmesg | less") should have a
whole bunch of lines about IO-APICS, CPU0 and CPU1, as well as a line
about Intel Multiprocessor Specification version 1.{1,4}

It doesn't sound like your current kernel has SMP support, so you'll
have to replace it, either by installing one of the
kernel-image-....-smp packages, or by getting the kernel source and
compiling it yourself.  

$ apt-cache search kernel-image | grep smp
will find the precompiled packages for you, and

$ apt-cache search kernel-source
will find the source packages for you.  

HTH,
--  
Stephen Ryan                                        Debian GNU/Linux
Technology Coordinator
Center for Educational Outcomes
at Dartmouth College


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