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    No SMP after upgrading to 1.2 RC4

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    • M
      Matts
      last edited by

      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>

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      • M
        Matts
        last edited by

        Does no-one check this ever on their firewall ?

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          fastcon68
          last edited by

          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

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          • M
            Matts
            last edited by

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

            But you selected SMP ? So you reinstalled it fully ?

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              fastcon68
              last edited by

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

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              • M
                Matts
                last edited by

                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.

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                • M
                  Matts
                  last edited by

                  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.

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                    fastcon68
                    last edited by

                    $ 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

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                    • M
                      Matts
                      last edited by

                      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

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                        fastcon68
                        last edited by

                        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

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                          David_W
                          last edited by

                          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.

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                            Matts
                            last edited by

                            @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.

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