No Multiprocessor Support (SMP) Installed in Fedora 8

[bond_fedora]

I have installed Fedora 8 on a dual microprocessor computer (Pentium III, 1000 MHz) but when I check /proc/cpuinfo I see only one CPU detected, not two.

Fedora 8 claims that by default the 2.6 kernel has already built-in smp support.

Am I missing something obvious during the installation phase? Because normally, when I installed Redhat 8, for example, installer would give me an option in the menu to select the multiprocessor support or not. During the Fedora 8 installation I did not see this kind of options. I encountered this when I did "without media installation".

What exactly to I need to do to set-up the multiprocessor support on my system? I would very much appreciate your help.

[Emphyrio]

Make sure you installed the correct version of F8: x86_64 should cover most multi core machines. The i386 version will only support the original 'Core Duo' chip but not 'Core 2 Duo'.

[bond_fedora]

I just checked. the distribution that I used was i386
According to Fedora documentation i386 is for 32-bit AMD, Intel Pentium, Intel Core Duo.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distri...a22f952064fa1b

Pentium III is 32 bit chip, will x86_64 distribution will be backwards compatible with 32 bit chips?

[lazlow]

You need to stick with the 32bit version for a PIII.

Lets see a "uname -a"

The " cat /proc/cpuinfo" might be useful too.

[bond_fedora]

"uname -a" give me:


Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.23.1-42.fc8 #1 SMP Tue Oct 30 13:55:12 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

" cat /proc/cpuinfo" gives me

processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 996.903
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips : 1994.40
clflush size : 32

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 996.903
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips : 1993.43
clflush size : 32


So, the system does see two cpu units. I had a confusion on what "top" gave me.

Tasks: 78 total, 1 running, 77 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 515164k total, 499604k used, 15560k free, 12436k buffers

So here "top" gives a cumulative usage not a usage for each cpu.

So, then everything went well. Thank you lazlow and Emphyrio.

[lazlow]

You can see each processor load in system monitor (assuming Gnome). Applications->System Tools->System monitor(resources tab)