SMP Problem on IBM x330 Server

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Jan 28 06:31:19 PST 2009


On Tuesday 27 January 2009 12:45:59 pm Tom Everett wrote:
> 
> I originally posted this to "FreeBSD Questions" but was told that the 
> ACPI list might be more appropriate.
> 
> I'm running the "stock" FreeBSD 7.1 kernel on an IBM x330 machine.  The 
> machine has two physical processors but it seems that FreeBSD 7.1 only 
> sees one.  I downloaded the kernel source and it seems that the GENERIC 
> kernel has SMP installed.  Is there something else I can try?  Thanks in 
> advance for your wisdom.

Please provide the output of 'acpidump -t'.  It seems the BIOS is not 
including both CPUs in the table it gives to the OS.

-- 
John Baldwin


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