SMP kernel for MSI 694D Pro

[Shane Ambler]

On 30/5/2004 19:39, "Kris Kennaway" <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:

> On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 07:35:30PM +0930, Shane Ambler wrote:
>> I am looking for some assistance in building an SMP kernel for an MSI dual
>> PIII board, model is 694D Pro.
>> 
>> I have built a new kernel (5.2.1) that boots, but doesn't appear to use both
>> procs.
>> 
>> Running top only shows one cpu line in the header - the entry for top
>> switches between cpu0 and cpu1 (in the state column) so there is some
>> recognition of the 2 procs just not spreading the load.
> 
> So your kernel is in fact using both CPUs.
> 
>> I am importing multiple times into mysql to check load - the best I can do
>> is get 45% idle.
> 
> If your application is not multithreaded or is linked to libc_r then
> it will only use one CPU at a time.

OK I will look at the configure options of mysql server - it is suppose to
be multi threaded.

I started up 4 simultaneous compiles from ports and got idle to drop down to
about 20%.

Shouldn't top show an individual line for each cpu load though?

last pid: 43405;  load averages:  6.19,  5.71,  4.03              up
0+01:04:51  20:19:04
107 processes: 1 running, 98 sleeping, 8 lock
CPU states: 45.5% user,  0.0% nice, 17.3% system,  0.0% interrupt, 37.3%idle
Mem: 165M Active, 273M Inact, 96M Wired, 2332K Cache, 86M Buf, 209M Free
Swap: 1511M Total, 1511M Free

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
  584 mysql    125    0 54336K 29044K *Giant 0   6:09 27.10% 27.10% mysqld
  671 root     124    0 27316K 19324K select 1   6:55 26.86% 26.86% kdeinit
 1851 root     102    0  3004K  2088K *Giant 0   0:31  5.86%  5.86% mysql
 1846 root       4    0  3004K  2088K sbwait 0   0:32  5.27%  5.27% mysql
  522 root      76    0 68116K 66852K select 0  31:49  3.47%  3.47% XFree86
  630 root      97    0 22792K 15020K select 0   0:43  0.93%  0.93% kdeinit
43385 root     130    0  7264K  6760K *Giant 0   0:00  8.00%  0.39% cc1




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