Re: Part II: Running SMP kernel but only one cpu

2009-05-05 Thread Tim Judd
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Duane du...@cheekymonkey.us wrote: On 5/4/09, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: IRQ15 is typically your secondary IDE controller; but due to PCI (or E-ISA) plugplay, including the PnP the BIOS may setup, lots of others can be on that bus too. This box

Re: Part II: Running SMP kernel but only one cpu

2009-05-05 Thread Duane
On 5/5/09, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: Would you try enabling the IDE channels and see if the IRQ storms stop? There is joy in Mudville. g I couldn't really change the IDE settings that much since there are no IDE drives in this thing. The channels are all on 'auto' and that yields a

Part II: Running SMP kernel but only one cpu

2009-05-04 Thread Duane
The bios in this old Micron dual PPro-180 full tower antique only initializes the second CPU if the machine is cold-booted. A simple 'reboot' results in a single processor machine regardless of the kernel that is launched. This fact -- unknown to me before last night -- was the source of a great

Re: Part II: Running SMP kernel but only one cpu

2009-05-04 Thread Adam Vande More
Duane wrote: The bios in this old Micron dual PPro-180 full tower antique only initializes the second CPU if the machine is cold-booted. A simple 'reboot' results in a single processor machine regardless of the kernel that is launched. This fact -- unknown to me before last night -- was the

Re: Part II: Running SMP kernel but only one cpu

2009-05-04 Thread Tim Judd
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Duane du...@cheekymonkey.us wrote: The bios in this old Micron dual PPro-180 full tower antique only initializes the second CPU if the machine is cold-booted. A simple 'reboot' results in a single processor machine regardless of the kernel that is launched.

Re: Part II: Running SMP kernel but only one cpu

2009-05-04 Thread Duane
On 5/4/09, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: IRQ15 is typically your secondary IDE controller; but due to PCI (or E-ISA) plugplay, including the PnP the BIOS may setup, lots of others can be on that bus too. This box has one SCSI card running two SCSI drives. The IDE's are disabled in the