Topic: [Solved] Pentium D Processor question

[mercyh]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me if a pentium D (dual core) should show up as two processors.

[root@sme7 ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 4
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz
stepping        : 7
cpu MHz         : 3000.412
cache size      : 1024 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 5
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm pni monitor ds_cpl est cid xtpr
bogomips        : 6004.22

I got onto this from the following post.

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=33780.0

Thanks,
Royce Holdeman

[byte]

And what does...

uname -a

Show?

[mercyh]

And what does...

uname -a

Show?

[root@sme7 ~]# uname -a
Linux sme7 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL #1 Fri Jul 7 19:24:57 CDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Lin
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Royce Holdeman

[byte]

Based on that no it will only show one processor, you could try booting the SMP kernel, read that other thread for more info.

[mercyh]

Should it show two processors if it is dual core?

I think there may be a bug in the update process. I believe that this server on original install showed 2 processors (but cannot remember for sure). If the yum update process is clobbering the bootloader and changing it back to the single processor version it would be hard to catch right off unless you were just looking for it.

I will raise a bug on it if you think that could be what is happening.

Royce Holdeman

[byte]

Should it show two processors if it is dual core?

I would have said so as it is dual core.

I think there may be a bug in the update process. I believe that this server on original install showed 2 processors (but cannot remember for sure). If the yum update process is clobbering the bootloader and changing it back to the single processor version it would be hard to catch right off unless you were just looking for it.

I will raise a bug on it if you think that could be what is happening.

Have a look and see if there isn't a bug then raise one, as it could be and make sure you enter everything you see or don't see happening

[mercyh]

Byte,

Thanks for your help!!!

SME does recognize a dual core as two processors. I have been using sme7admin contrib to show system usage and ever since the last update I have been hitting 98% utilization on my processor at the time my learn as spam script and virus scanning runs. (before the upgrade I was using around 55% for these tasks). Anybody that is running multiple processors needs to have a look at this to see if they have been affected.

Royce Holdeman

[mercyh]

Byte,

Here is the bug. There is already some interesting information on how this could be happening.

http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1930

Thanks again for your help. Looking at the forum it appears that you are working overtime today helping others.

Royce Holdeman

[byte]

Already posted on it aka Gavin  

[william_syd]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me if a pentium D (dual core) should show up as two processors.

Yes it should.
The pentium D Celeron wont.