On 19:14, Tue 17 May 05, John T. Moran wrote:
I installed Debian sarge today and the install went good. I couldn't get
the system to boot with the 2.6.8 smp kernel so I changed the repository
to unstable and installed the 2.6.11.1 kernel. Everything went fine and
no problems. System shows no bad behaviour. The one thing I noticed is
the System monitor is only showing one cpu. I have an Intel d865gbf
board with a 3.0 HT P4. I also have an Ubuntu 5.04 install on another
hard drive and it shows 2 cpu's.
I checked the /proc/cpuinfo file and it is listing a cpu0 and cpu1.
Any help with why System monitor would only show one cpu and any oher
ways to check if the HT is being used correctly? Thanks.
John
One of the first things I would check is top, see if it
see's two cpu's. I would also check dmesg see if it lists
two cpu's, I do not know how it lists a logical cpu, but I
am sure google can find it out for you.
I know many moons ago when I tried the installer on sarge it
only seen one cpu, seems that they do not include an smp
aware kernel with the installer, that might of changed a
while ago. If that is the case just make your own, or
download a smp aware kernel with apt-get. That was with dual
amd MP cpus, was many moons ago, probably going on a good
nine months.
You just might want to keep it to one cpu as HyperThreading
has a security bulletin against it, found in the BSD's
probably effects all OS's. Check the news its all over the
web if you want to find out more.
Gnu-Raiz