Re: checking that all cpus are being used in my installation....
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 08:45:29PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear Folks,
>
> physical id : 0
> siblings : 8
> core id : 3
> cpu cores : 4
>
> Does this seem reasonable?
Yes.
> Should the number of cpu cores be 8 rather than 4 (listed above)?
It is 8. See the siblings field? cat /proc/cpuinfo shows you all
8 cores, but a lot of it will scroll off your screen.
The 8350 is arranged as two 4-core CPUs sharing the same module.
> If I did that would it be make -j9 by default in debian or do I need to
> specify that in the same way as you would in gentoo?
Specify it.
> Also it should then compile pretty swiftly and smoothly (provided the power
> supply is a good one) should it not?
RAM and disk play a big part, too.
If the irqbalance daemon is not running, you may want to install
it. irqbalance spreads interrupt load over as many CPU cores as
you have, which in most *but not all* situations leads to better
overall performance.
-dsr-
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