Dual core CPU's, but only 2 CPU's in-use?
Tigger
tigger at lvlworld.com
Sun Feb 24 12:33:11 UTC 2008
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:46:23 +0100
Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze at bsdforen.de> wrote:
> Tigger wrote:
> > Hello. I have a Xeon system with 2 CPU's installed (dual-cores).
> > Under FreeBSD 6.2, a systat reported 4 CPUs in use and so did
> > dmesg.
> >
> > Under FreeBSD 6.3, dmesg is reporting the 4 CPUs, but systat is only
> > reporting 2 CPUs (CPU 0 and CPU 2).
> >
> > How do I enabled the second cores on the CPU's or are they really
> > running but systat is not reporting the CPU load across the cores?
>
> You can run 'top -S' to check how many idle processes exist. If there
> are four, everything is fine.
>
Sadly, no luck. Only cpu0 and cpu2 are reported:
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU
COMMAND 11 root 1 171 52 0K 8K CPU2 2 143:43 92.38%
idle: cpu2 13 root 1 171 52 0K 8K RUN 0 142:33
92.04% idle: cpu0
-Tig
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