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Re: How to get the 2nd CPU to work?



On Thursday 07 October 2004 13:16, Jason Rennie wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 03:06:41AM +0530, Rishi wrote:
> > The output of dmesg and /proc/cpuinfo appears to have recognized the
> > 2nd CPU. Any ideas if
> > (a) the 2nd CPU is being used OR
> > (b) it's not being used
>
> This is the test that I use to tell if both CPUs are working:
>
> yes > /dev/null &
> top
> yes > /dev/null &
> top
>
> If the first top shows a yes process with 49% CPU usage or the second
> top shows two yes processes each with 99% CPU usage, then both
> processors are working.

Why not just run top, then hit 1 to show both procs?
You will see if one or both are being utilized.

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