Error: "Not an SMP Machine..."

[Ajai Khattri]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Sanjeev Aggarwal wrote:

> I have installed the Linux 7.3 on a Dell 4 CPU server and run the up2date to
> install the latest patches and the SMP kernel, But now If I run the
> following command it gives an error message "Not an SMP Machine" How do I
> tell Linux that this is a 4 CPU system and I want to use all the 4 CPU's
>
> $mpstat -P -ALL
> Not an SMP Machine....
>
> $uname -a
> Linux 2.4.18-3

Do you need to reboot to run the newly-installed SMP kernel perhaps?

;-)

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Aj.
Sys. Admin / Developer