From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 7 14:44: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.the-i-pa.com (mail.the-i-pa.com [151.201.71.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 78A1537B401 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:44:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: (qmail 8603 invoked from network); 7 Jun 2001 21:52:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iowna.com) (151.201.71.193) by mail.the-i-pa.com with SMTP; 7 Jun 2001 21:52:27 -0000 Message-ID: <3B1FF522.136F29FA@iowna.com> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 17:41:54 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Shawn Frederickson Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Enabling Multiple CPUs on 4.2 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Build, compile and install a kernel that is SMP aware. The default kernel (GENERIC) is not SMP capable. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html Shawn Frederickson wrote: > > I have several 2 CPU systems running FreeBSD 4.2. I know this because I > opened the system and there are 2 physical CPUs. The system manual doesn't > mention any jumper settings I should need to change, but according to sysctl > and sysinfo, there is only 1 CPU on the systems. > > Output from sysinfo: > > G E N E R A L I N F O R M A T I O N > > Host ID is 00000000 > System Model is GenuineIntel Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron > Main Memory is 2.0 GB > Virtual Memory is 4.0 GB > Number of CPUs is 1 > CPU Type is i686 GenuineIntel Pentium III/Pentium III > Xeon/Celeron > App Architecture is i386 > Kernel Architecture is i386 > OS Name is FreeBSD > OS Version is 4.2-RELEASE > OS Distribution is 199506 > > sysctl -n hw.ncpu > 1 > > Is there anything I need to do to get FreeBSD to recognize the 2nd CPU? > Your help is greatly appreciated! > > Thanks! > > Shawn D. Frederickson > Production Systems Administrator > Requisite Technology > E-CONTENT SOLUTIONS THAT POWER B2B E-COMMERCE > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > This electronic mail transmission and any accompanying documents contain > information belonging to the sender > ("Information") that may be confidential and legally privileged. If you are > not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, > distribution or action taken in reliance on the Information is strictly > prohibited. If you have received the Information in error, > please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the > original email. > Thank you. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message