On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:53:20PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > I've just installed 6.0-RELASE and am trying to get SMP to work (I have af > Pentium 4 with HT). So I've compiled the kernel with 'options SMP' and > according to dmesg the two CPUs are found: > > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs > cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 > cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 > > But I'm not sure that both are enabled, because at this is at the end of > dmesg and I dont see the other CPU being enabled somewhere: > > SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
I think it is referring to the Auxiliary Processor (AP), because the BSP (don't know what that stands for, though) is obviously already active. > According to 'sysctl -a' there are 2 CPUs, but only 1 active and SMP > doesnt seem to be disabled: > > kern.smp.cpus: 2 > kern.smp.disabled: 0 > kern.smp.active: 1 sysctl -d kern.smp.active kern.smp.active: Number of Auxillary Processors (APs) that were successfully started This is the number of _extra_ CPUs, which chould be 1. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt
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