From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F8p1e-0002xc-PO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:30:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1E1ThOJ017946; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:29:43 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (thunder.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.71]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1E1Phv2007096 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:25:45 GMT Received: from orpheus (unknown [150.101.6.82]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93B014B94F for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:25:40 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SMP not working? From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:55:31 +0930 Message-Id: <1139880331.10061.15.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ed1aa2c6-e803-4d01-8046-12bcb230b141 X-Archives-Hash: e1dfc6444e7761bdc33cc260c1def57a On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 19:58 -0500, Nick Smith wrote: > actually the SMP "is" working, as in top shows 2 CPU's. but when i do > an emerge --sync CPU1 stays pegged at 99% and CPU0 stays below 1% the > entire time. this is a dual 200mhz U2 Sparc system, i was just > wondering if this was normal or is there something messed up in my > config? AFAIK, certain operations can't use both CPU's because of the way they're written. rsync (used by emerge --sync) may be one. At least you'll use one cpu for rsync, and the other cpu for everything else you may be doing at the time, so you'll still get a performance advantage. > and sorry for posting this in the normal user list, i figured i would > get more responses here as i dont think this is specific to Sparc > hardware, but i could be wrong. No worries! I don't know what the "official" word is, but this list is more a general usage list, rather than gentoo specific issues. -- Iain Buchanan How come financial advisors never seem to be as wealthy as they claim they'll make you? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list