suse 8.1 can't see two processors
 

Hi,
We have a two processor Intel Xeon machine. I installed Suse 8.1 on this. The system can't see both processors. Here is the output of uname and cat /proc/cpuinfo.

Has anyone seen this or has some recommendations.

Thanks,

uname -r
2.4.19-64GB-SMP

processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.66GHz
stepping : 7
cpu MHz : 2658.120
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
threads : 1
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 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm
bogomips : 5308.41

I would guess you have to re-compile the kernel for SMP support... I don't know much about that -- I just use Mandrake 9.1 for my machines. Single or multi processor configurations get configured properly with the Mandrake install. They have an SMP kernel and an Enterprise kernel that both show up on the menu after installation. I guess the enterprise one is for systems with large memory. I use that one and specify 'mem=2048M' in my Lilo configuration.

Strange...
 

Your Kernel SAYS its an SMP kernel.

What does <b>uname -a</b> return?

And the vodoo solution... does it still do it after you reboot?

it worked finally
 

Well, guess what, the BIOS settings had hyperthreading off. Once I turned it ON both processors were seen.