Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264156AbTEOSgD (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2003 14:36:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264158AbTEOSgD (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2003 14:36:03 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:27600 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264156AbTEOSgC (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2003 14:36:02 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 11:44:45 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Bill Davidsen Cc: David Howells , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@digeo.com Subject: Re: 2.5 kernels fail to start second CPU Message-ID: <20030515184445.GQ8978@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Bill Davidsen , David Howells , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@digeo.com References: <20030515101103.GP8978@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 946 Lines: 26 On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 02:21:10PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > While you are (somewhat) on the topic of starting processors, I want to > benchmark and application on a dual Xeon system. I want to try these > configurations, preferably without opening the box, since it's in > another time zone. > 2 cpu w/ ht normal boot > 2 cpu w/o ht noht > 1 cpu w/o ht nosmp noht > 1 cpu w/ ht ??? > It looks as if maxcpus=2 counts physical units? I can't try it until Monday. What on earth are you getting on about? ia32 is utter crap with respect to power management, virtualization, and generalized firmware. If you don't have remote power management, buy it in whatever form possible. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/