OpenBSD 5.5 sysctl reports hw.ncpu=1 when using 2-core processor Intel Atom CPU S1260 @ 2.00GHz

2014-09-01 Thread Ryan
I am using OpenBSD 5.5 with motherboard Supermicro X9SBAA-F which has CPU Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU S1260 @ 2.00GHz. Intel's website reports that my CPU has 2 cores and 4 hardware threads: http://ark.intel.com/products/71267/Intel-Atom-Processor-S1260-1M-Cache-2_00-GHz I was using the top command to

Re: OpenBSD 5.5 sysctl reports hw.ncpu=1 when using 2-core processor Intel Atom CPU S1260 @ 2.00GHz

2014-09-01 Thread Ted Unangst
On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 15:51, Ryan wrote: $ sysctl -a | egrep -i 'hw.machine|hw.model|hw.ncpu' hw.machine=amd64 hw.model=Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU S1260 @ 2.00GHz hw.ncpu=1 hw.ncpufound=4 Does this output indicate that my operating system is only using one core? During the installation

Re: OpenBSD 5.5 sysctl reports hw.ncpu=1 when using 2-core processor Intel Atom CPU S1260 @ 2.00GHz

2014-09-01 Thread System Administrator
If you look at the header line of the dmesg you quoted below, you will notice that it says GENERIC -- that is the official name of the SP (single processor) kernel. To utilize more than one CPU core, you need to be running the MP (multi-processor) kernel, as in GENERIC.MP. On 1 Sep 2014 at

Re: OpenBSD 5.5 sysctl reports hw.ncpu=1 when using 2-core processor Intel Atom CPU S1260 @ 2.00GHz

2014-09-01 Thread Joe Gidi
On Mon, September 1, 2014 10:46 pm, Ted Unangst wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 15:51, Ryan wrote: $ sysctl -a | egrep -i 'hw.machine|hw.model|hw.ncpu' hw.machine=amd64 hw.model=Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU S1260 @ 2.00GHz hw.ncpu=1 hw.ncpufound=4 Does this output indicate that my operating