No SMP after upgrading to 1.2 RC4

[Matts]

Hi,

I have seen that upgrading to RC4 lost the SMP support I had with it in RC3.

I have not done a new install yet (testbox), but have more people seen this ?

systat gives me this now on RC4:

/0   /1   /2   /3   /4   /5   /6   /7   /8   /9   /10
     Load Average   |

/0   /10  /20  /30  /40  /50  /60  /70  /80  /90  /100
              <idle>XXXXXXXXXX
root     idle: cpu0 XXXXXXXXX
root     bandwidthd XXXXX
root     bandwidthd XXXXX
root     bandwidthd XXXXX
root     bandwidthd XXXX
root     bandwidthd XXX
root     bandwidthd XX
root     bandwidthd XX
root     bandwidthd XX

Or the first <idle>is cpu1 ? Those 2 are moving around with each other from time to time.</idle></idle>

[Matts]

Does no-one check this ever on their firewall ?

[fastcon68]

I have both processor after my upgrade to rc4.  I made sure to select smp for the option when installing the upgrade from rc3 to rc4.  Since then I have had no issues on the installation.

RC

[Matts]

Nice to hear, I actually didn't expect that it wouldn't work.

But you selected SMP ? So you reinstalled it fully ?

[fastcon68]

I just installed the full snapshot and it work fine.  I have had no issues.
RC

[Matts]

I will try to see what happens on another system that still needs the upgrade and will reboot the one that gives me the above output.

[Matts]

For now,

A reboot does not make any sense at all.

sysctl hw.ncpu
hw.ncpu: 1

I will check the CPU's in the system, but because I has this before, I doubt if one is broken.

[fastcon68]

$ systat
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Matts,
this is what I get.  when I run the systat command on my servr.  i did have one cpu on my dual core running.  I had to upgrade to the SMP corp from the upgrade panel when I did my update.  no issue since.
                                                                                                                                                                /0  /1  /2  /3  /4  /5  /6  /7  /8  /9  /10Load Average/0  /10  /20  /30  /40  /50  /60  /70  /80  /90  /100

root    idle: cpu0 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
root    idle: cpu1 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
root            sh

RC

[Matts]

Strange, on a Stable 1.2 I still only see one CPU out of 2.

Someone seen the same ?

This is the kernel it booted:

FreeBSD hostname 6.2-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p11 #0: Sun Feb 24 16:49:14 EST 2008    sullrich@builder6.pfsense.com:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/src/sys/pfSense_SMP.6  i386

[fastcon68]

I just rebuilt my firewall.  It ask me what kernal to install.  I selected multiple.  I have have no issues.  Sounds like you selected the single processor option during the installation.  I am not sure how to chang eit other than a reinstall.  Maybe someone else can shed some ling on that.
RC

[David_W]

Matts is running the SMP kernel - but only one processor is being detected for some reason.

Matts - post the dmesg. That should give a much better idea of what's happening.

[Matts]

@David_W:

Matts is running the SMP kernel - but only one processor is being detected for some reason.

Matts - post the dmesg. That should give a much better idea of what's happening.

Hi David,

I first have to check the BIOS settings later this week if I'm at the Firewall place.

I know that I have tested it months ago on a compaq to see what happened with different settings in for the OS in the BIOS… it might be that again, before it was OK, but I think I have to change things.

I will keep you guys posted.