Linux SMP + TOP Q?

Chris redhat-list at dotcomdesigners.com
Fri Nov 11 22:41:55 UTC 2005


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Flight 800" <Flight800 at comcast.net>
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 2:39 PM
Subject: Linux SMP + TOP Q?


>I have a server with Ev1Servers.net in houston that I use for webhosting.
> We run Ensim control panel so people can login and manage their virtual
> webserver with a web-based interface.  During the course of applying a
> recent patch from Ensim that included a kernel update we noticed that the
> new kernel did not support SMP.  Ev1 offered to rebuild the kernel for us
> and we allowed them to.  Now when we login uname -a shows this:
>
> Linux xxx.domain.net 2.6.9-22.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue Oct 18 18:39:27 EDT 
> 2005
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> However in "top" there's still only processor showing, whereas I've always
> seen two processors in "top" on every hyperthreading system I've been on.
> Can anyone explain it to me?

Hit "h" for help.  You may need to simply re-enable the displaying of all 
CPUs individually, rather than seeing just the one combined line.  It should 
be either option "1" or uppercase "C" to toggle between single or SMP CPU 
info display.

Chris 





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