[CentOS] recognizing correct number of cores on CPU

[Jerry Geis]

Peter Kjellstrom wrote:
> On Friday 18 June 2010, Jerry Geis wrote:
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>> Peter Kjellstrom wrote:
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>>> More information would also be nice (like dmesg output).
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>>> /Peter
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>>>> I'd rather not go through the process again of putting a newer kernel
>>>> on the machine and having something different out there than "stock"
>>>> centos.
>>>>
>>>> Jerry
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>> more /proc/cpuinfo is showing:
>>  more /proc/cpuinfo
>> processor       : 0
>> vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
>> cpu family      : 6
>> model           : 37
>> model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU       M 430  @ 2.27GHz
>>     
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>> dmesg is :
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>> Linux version 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 (mockbuild at builder10.centos.org) (gcc
>> version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)) #1 SMP Thu May 13 13:08:30 EDT
>> 2010 Command line: ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet noapic acpi=off apci=off
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> I think this is the problem, acpi=off, that will (if I remember correctly) 
> essentially disable smp.
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> /Peter
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>> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
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I added the "noapic acpi=off and apci=off" as without them the install 
processs died.
I dont have the exact message any longer.

jerry