[buug] Dual Processor

nchriss nchriss at strife.org
Tue Dec 3 21:07:53 PST 2002


On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:01:40AM +0530, Abhay Kumar Srivastava wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I want to run freeBSD 3.2 on a dual processor intell xenon machine. I tried using the SMP option in the config file. Is there a utility by which i can accertain if  freeBSD has detected both the processors and can use them. 


You should normally see something in your dmesg output to the effect of:

SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!

Additionally, you can use top and you should see a new column 'C', which indicates the
CPU number (1 or 0) that each process is bound to.

> Regards,
> Abhay 
> 

-nchriss




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