Hello all,
since upgrade to 6.3 (and kernel 2.6.32-279.x) it looks like only one core of the AMD Dualcore Opteron 1218 is functional. Reverting to previous kernel shows everything working as expected.
I've filed a bug report here after failing to figure out if it is just a configuration problem:
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5821
I can't find anything on the net that would explain where the problem is. /proc/cpuinfo shows two cores, but top and /proc/stat show basically one core working:
- top shows cpu0 idle constantly at 0%, and sporadic 100%sy or 50%sy 50%us, which can't be right - /proc/stat shows cpu0 idle and iowat at 0 - Munin CPU graph shows 200% available but metrics go only up to 100% - mpstat -P ALL shows proper %idle for both cores, but still core0 gets either 100%sy or 50%sy 50%us sporadically.
I've also got this in the logs, possibly due to BIOS, and I don't know if it is related, I've seen it with 6.2 too.
Jul 11 20:44:57 app1 kernel: [Firmware Bug]: powernow-k8: No compatible ACPI _PSS objects found. Jul 11 20:44:57 app1 kernel: [Firmware Bug]: powernow-k8: Try again with latest BIOS.
Any ideas what the possible cause could be or what can I do to figure this out? It's a rented server so I don't have the ability to toy with the BIOS.
Thanks.