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jykwon

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Registered: 2009-09-28

Posts: 9

Not recognizing all cores

I havea Dell R900 server with 4 Intel Xeon E7450 (6-core) CPUs and 269GB of memory. I decided to give Arch a try on it and the installation went without a hitch, but I noticed when doing a TOP command that only 16 cores are showing up.  I've tried a search on the subject, but came up empty and I'm hoping that someone could shed some light as to why I'm not seeing all the cores. Thanks in advance!

top - 11:04:30 up 14 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 166 total,   1 running, 165 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu0  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu1  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu2  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu3  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu4  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu5  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu6  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu7  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu8  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu9  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu10 :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu11 :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu12 :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu13 :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu14 :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu15 :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:  264277144k total,    98460k used, 264178684k free,     6884k buffers
Swap: 39062008k total,        0k used, 39062008k free,    16460k cached

rusty99

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Registered: 2009-03-18

Posts: 253

Re: Not recognizing all cores

 grep -i nr_cpu config
CONFIG_NR_CPUS=16

Looks like it's a kernel build setting.

jykwon

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Registered: 2009-09-28

Posts: 9

Re: Not recognizing all cores

Thank you very much! Found the option and I'm recompiling now.

crankyadmin

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Registered: 2009-09-27

Posts: 117

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Re: Not recognizing all cores

Thats a nice machine you got there... I would be interested to see some benchmarks...

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