On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 11:22:59AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> B) Use Dell Deployment Toolkit. The SYSCFG command can reset this
> value. From the documentation:
>
> SYSCFG --cpucore 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, all
> This option controls the number of enabled cores in each processor.
> The defa
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:05:40AM -0600, Rahul Nabar wrote:
> Has anyone seen this problem before? I have dual socket Nehalems with
> twin quad core chips. When I booted the OS it showed only 4 cores. I
> went to the BIOS and found under Processor Settings the entry
> Cores-per-processor set to "D
Rahul Nabar wrote:
> I dried dmidecode but cannot figure out the exact setting line I need.
>
Rahul,
FWIW, this will give you an indication of the settings of the
system's core enabled status & Symmetric Multi-Threading (SMT)/
HyperThreading (HT) settings
# dmidecode -t processor |egrep '(Soc
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Robert von Bismarck
wrote:
>> R410's R710 and R510 all are doing this currently (says my TAM).
>>
>> I can't say why but I was told it's a "feature" not a "bug".
>> Very non-intuitive to me. I can't see why an 8 core server
>> defaulting to 4 core makes sense
Hi Robert,
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 06:02:10PM +0100, Robert von Bismarck wrote:
[...]
> > R410's R710 and R510 all are doing this currently (says my TAM).
> >
> > I can't say why but I was told it's a "feature" not a "bug".
> > Very non-intuitive to me. I can't see why an 8 core server
> > de
>
> Thanks guys for helping out! I got the official answer from
> Dell just a few minutes ago. Apparently the Dell servers are
> doing this strange BIOS setting by design. I quote my
> Technical Account Manager below.
>
> ##
> [snip]
> My apologies we were quite busy today, and I was j
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Tim Small wrote:
> You can use "dumpCmos" from the smbios utilities to dump all of the BIOS
> settings from the Linux commandline. Do a diff of the two sets of dumps
> with the dual-core/quad-core setting having been manually changed...
> You can then use "activat
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Big Wave Dave wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Rahul Nabar wrote:
>> Has anyone seen this problem before? I have dual socket Nehalems with
>> twin quad core chips. When I booted the OS it showed only 4 cores. I
>> went to the BIOS and found under Processo
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Big Wave Dave wrote:
>> --
>> Rahul
>>
> We had 16 x R410s show up in mid December with the same issue.
>
> Dave
>
Thanks Dave! I'm feeling a little better that I'm not the only one.
--
Rahul
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On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Rahul Nabar wrote:
> Has anyone seen this problem before? I have dual socket Nehalems with
> twin quad core chips. When I booted the OS it showed only 4 cores. I
> went to the BIOS and found under Processor Settings the entry
> Cores-per-processor set to "Dual"
>
>
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Stephan van Hienen
wrote:
>> Subject: R410's shipped out with BIOS showing 4 cores instead of 8
>>
>> Has anyone seen this problem before.
>
> We had the same issue with 3 R510's received last week.
> Some R710's recei
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Jason Edgecombe
wrote:
> Stephan van Hienen wrote:
> I have seen one or two Dell systems where hyperthreading was turned off in
> the BIOS in the factory.
>
This isn't the same thoughI can have hyperthreading off and yet
see all 8 cores.
Just making sure th
Jason Edgecombe wrote:
> Stephan van Hienen wrote:
>>> Subject: R410's shipped out with BIOS showing 4 cores instead of 8
>>>
>>> Has anyone seen this problem before.
>>>
>>
>> We had the same issue with 3 R510's received last
Stephan van Hienen wrote:
>> Subject: R410's shipped out with BIOS showing 4 cores instead of 8
>>
>> Has anyone seen this problem before.
>>
>
> We had the same issue with 3 R510's received last week.
> Some R710's received a couple of mont
> Subject: R410's shipped out with BIOS showing 4 cores instead of 8
>
> Has anyone seen this problem before.
We had the same issue with 3 R510's received last week.
Some R710's received a couple of months ago had the correct bios set
Has anyone seen this problem before? I have dual socket Nehalems with
twin quad core chips. When I booted the OS it showed only 4 cores. I
went to the BIOS and found under Processor Settings the entry
Cores-per-processor set to "Dual"
If I change it to "All" everything is ok again.
Why is such an
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