On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 10:08 +0200, Martin Mewes wrote:
Hi all,
today I got a question for the german suse-linux-faq about the dual processor support in SL 10.0. The submitter asked if dual processors (here: two Intel Pentuim 4) are recognized during setup, because after the installation the submitter sees only one processor.
I did not answer yet, because I do not have a dual processor system to test it, but I followed Google to the following stuff:
<google>
http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?act=ST&f=4&t=14914 How do i check if both processors are running in suse? [...] type cat /proc/cpuinfo If it lists both cpu's...it recognized both cpu's...for instance... [...] If they aren't listed that most likely means you need to install the SMP kernel.
</google>
My question now is, if it is true that the installation system only works with one processor even if it detects two processors in order to avoid problems? And in addition if this installation behaviour leads to install the one-processor-kernel by default?
Have the person check to see which kernel was installed and also run top and hit the number 1 key to toggle smp view to check how many are recognized. Also dmesg|less will show how many cpu's were detected. Does the person have two physical cpu's or one with HT technology? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998