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Date:      Tue, 24 May 2005 08:59:18 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Top only showing one active CPU on HTT system
Message-ID:  <20050524155918.GA46299@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200505241053.36377.kirk@strauser.com>
References:  <200505241053.36377.kirk@strauser.com>

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On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 10:53:29AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> I'm running a 5.4-STABLE system (updated as of May 16).  My kernel is=20
> basically GENERIC with a few small tweaks, like commenting out extraneous=
=20
> "cpu" lines and adding "options SMP".
>=20
> My problem is that although dmesg shows every sign of having launched bot=
h=20
> logical CPUs:
>=20
> $ dmesg | grep -i cpu
> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz (2392.05-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
>  cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
>  cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  1
> cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
> cpu1: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
> SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
>=20
> ... running "top" only shows "0" in the CPU column for every task.  I don=
't=20
> see anything out of place in sysctl:
>=20
> $ sysctl -a | grep -i hlt
> machdep.cpu_idle_hlt: 1
> machdep.hlt_cpus: 2
> machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: 0
>=20
> and /boot/loader.conf is all but empty.  Honestly, I don't really know ho=
w=20
> long this has been going on.  top used to show both 0 and 1 in the C colu=
mn=20
> and I'm not exactly sure when it stopped.  Any ideas?

Read the security advisories issued for FreeBSD.

Kris
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