Josh Trutwin wrote: >>On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Josh Trutwin wrote: >> >>>This is my first dual-processor Linux adventure, I'm installing Debian >>>woody on a Dell PowerEdge 1750 with two 2.4 Ghz Xeon processors. >> >> Oooo. Congratulations. > > > Well, it's technically not mine, but yeah, it is kinda fun. > > >> You could always fire up two copies of SETI at home, and eyeball `top` to >>see the CPU affinity (which I believe it shows when running with multiple >>CPUs). > > > I was not seeing anything different with top that tells anything about multiple CPU's. Supposedly top -C is an SMP option, but that also doesn't show anything interesting. I finally found the "LC" field, that shows "Last used CPU", this shows the processes nicely divided up between processor 0 and processor 1. /proc/cpuinfo also shows both CPUs, so I think I can rest easier. > > It's wierd having to tee ./configure output into a log file now because the messages scroll by too fast to even read! > > Now I have to fix a broken perl installation. sigh... > > Josh > Shouldn't you be seeing *four* processors? I do I on my dual Xeon box using gkrellm and gtop... _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list