[CentOS] question on CPU

Thu May 27 14:51:50 UTC 2010
Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com>

lists-centos wrote:
> ------------ Original Message ------------
>   
>> Date: Thursday, May 27, 2010 10:38:34 AM -0400
>> From: Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com>
>>     
>>> On 05/27/2010 03:47 PM, Jerry Geis wrote:
>>>       
>>>> / I have centos 5.4 on an HP laptop, as below the /proc/cpuinfo
>>>> shows Dual
>>>>         
>>> />/ core,
>>> />/ however, there is only 1 processor listed in /proc/cpuinfo.
>>> />/
>>> />/ Is the OS only using a single core?
>>> /
>>> Check the BIOS, I have seen HP desktops that have option in BIOS
>>> to turn  off multicore support. Then only single core is exposed
>>> to the OS.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Looked in the BIOS and there was no setting.
>>
>> Top is only showing 1 CPU.
>>     
>
> look in /var/log/dmesg, that will show what was found during the
> boot process (and perhaps provide other insights).
>
>   - Richard
>
>
>
>   
powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Turion(tm) X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile ZM-86 
processors (1 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00)
powernow-k8:    0 : fid 0x0 gid 0x0 (2400 MHz)
powernow-k8:    1 : fid 0x0 gid 0x0 (1200 MHz)
powernow-k8:    2 : fid 0x0 gid 0x0 (600 MHz)



Did they give me a "bad" processor.

jerry