On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:54:39 +1300 Matt Parlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/5/06, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have a dual Xeon machine that was running fine on all four > > > cores, but then I started getting some filesystem corruption > > > because of dodgy RAID drivers. I disabled ACPI, which fixed > > > this, but now I am down to running on two cores. > > > > > > My question is, is there any way to run SMP (that will give me all > > > four cores) without ACPI? > > > > If you are running on two cores, and you see both in /proc/cpuinfo, > > then you have SMP enabled. > > I can see two cores in /proc/cpuinfo, but I used to see four, since > the processors are both dual core (sorry, I should have mentioned > this). > > I'm not sure if I'm only running on one physical processor or one core > from each processor, but I'm definitely only running on two cores, and > I was running on four cores before, and the only change I made was > disabling ACPI. > > I have the dmesg output from before (with ACPI) and now (without ACPI) > if anyone is interested: > > http://www.webgenius.co.nz/dmesg-acpi.txt > > http://www.webgenius.co.nz/dmesg-noacpi.txt > > Cheers, > > Matt > > I don't have an answer.I thought ACPI was for power management, esp laptops, a heavily used server doesn't seem to me to need power management. I have a smp PIII Gz that gives me fits, IRQ allocation on the pci slots. This is a APIC issue, and the easiest solution was not to use certain cards in the box. Is that two cpu's with hyperthreading or two core duo cpu's? -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
