Topic: Adding Second Processor

[Joaquin Alcerro]

Has anyone had any luck running a SME E-Smith Server with a second processor.  I have a PC365 PPro with two 200MHz Processors.  However, when I run "top" from the command line I only see one processor.  Any suggestions?

[sage]

did you do the install with the second processor in it? if not then the dual processore kernel was not installed.  You will  need to reinstall, also if it is an athlon it wont work, well it did not work for me, tyan tyger 2 1.2 athlons.  I had to put axon on that box.

Sage

[Chaloner Hale]

I run Proliant 800's, HP Vectra's, and Intergraph dual Pentium Pro 200's with no problem at all.

As in the previous post, both processors must be installed prior to the e-smith install. There may be something in your bios that may affect the OS seing both processors. If there is a setting related to OS type, you may want to play with it. Either way, if you just added the 2nd processor, you will have to re-install.

Once properly installed, LILO will by default boot up in multiprocessor mode, yet give you a choice to boot up in single processor mode at startup (LILO UP, where UP=uni-processor).

Chaloner Hale

[WXP]

You can see if you're second cpu has been detected like this

cat /proc/cpuinfo

See ya

[Joaquin Alcerro]

With this command, is the "cpuid level" the number of processors?  It has a level 2
Thanks for the input.

[FSCITADMIN]

Hi!
I have several Intergraph servers Pro Pent 200, I was wondering if you are still using yours and what distro of SME you are using on them?
I haven't installed SME on mine yet, but wondered if there were any problems during the install, if so what and how did you deal with them?
Thanks
Trish

I run Proliant 800's, HP Vectra's, and Intergraph dual Pentium Pro 200's with no problem at all.

As in the previous post, both processors must be installed prior to the e-smith install. There may be something in your bios that may affect the OS seing both processors. If there is a setting related to OS type, you may want to play with it. Either way, if you just added the 2nd processor, you will have to re-install.

Once properly installed, LILO will by default boot up in multiprocessor mode, yet give you a choice to boot up in single processor mode at startup (LILO UP, where UP=uni-processor).

Chaloner Hale

[Smitro]

With this command, is the "cpuid level" the number of processors?  It has a level 2
Thanks for the input.

That's just info about the particular Processor. you should have info about 2 processors listed there.

Make sure that when you boot the system you select "SMP" instead of "UP" This is on the flash screen that flashes up as your booting.

I'm using 2 processors no problem so I know it works.

[dwater]

As in the previous post, both processors must be installed prior to the e-smith install.

I upgraded a Compaq ProLiant ML370 from one processor to two and didn't have to do any s/w changed. It automatically selected the SMP kernel at boot time. Top also shows two processors :

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CPU0 states:  0.2% user,  1.3% system,  0.0% nice, 97.4% idle
CPU1 states:  0.2% user,  2.1% system,  0.0% nice, 97.1% idle

So, I don't think you need to reinstall or anything. Perhaps I did something when I installed that made it easy to add an extra processor, but I didn't have to make any s/w changes to use it.