[cod] [COD] SMP Kernels

[Robert Mount]

You need an SMP kernel in order for more than a single CPU to be seen
by the OS.  So, load up the SMP kernel and try your taskset again.

--Rob

On 1/30/06, Carlo <carlomoretto at gmail.com> wrote:
> Installed non smp kernel and tried using taskset but it doesnt seem to be
> working
>
> Here is what I did:
>
> Prompt>taskset -p 03 4368
> pid 4368's current affinity mask: 1
> pid 4368's new affinity mask: 1
>
> Prompt>taskset -p 02 4368
>  pid 4368's current affinity mask: 1
>  pid 4368's new affinity mask: 1
>
> You can see that it wont set it to anything but 1. Also, when I issue the
> following command:
>
> cat /proc/cpuinfo
>
> Only 1 processor is showing...what can I do to resolve this (apart from
> using an smp kernel!)
>
> Thanks
>
> On 30/01/06, Quint van Drosthagen <cod at se-easy.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Ok didn't know that but still I think the load on the machine will be high
> because you still have the problem that each process has to wait until he
> gets processor time.. I'm curious what your vmstat is saying in this cause..
> Can you run a vmstat 5 for my for about 5 minutes and let me know what the
> procs/b is saying… This line indicates how many procs are waiting until they
> are getting cpu time….
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Quint
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Quint van Drosthagen [mailto:cod at se-easy.net]
> > Sent: zondag 29 januari 2006 19:57
> > To: cod at icculus.org
> >
> > Subject: RE: [cod] [COD] SMP Kernels
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yes verry… I run a dual amd cpu system, and made a while back to start the
> wrong kernel… At that moment everything was separated on one cpu per
> process. That isn't the problem, what the problem is is that you can't say
> wich process is going to wich cpu, and that means in my case that one cpu
> was overloaded and one was doing nothing. Because of this there was a high
> load on my machine because everything had to wait until it can get cpu
> power… So for a short story… Keep using smp…
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Quint
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Carlo [mailto:carlomoretto at gmail.com]
> > Sent: zondag 29 januari 2006 13:54
> > To: cod at icculus.org
> > Subject: [cod] [COD] SMP Kernels
> >
> >
> >
> > Im running a dual pentium mandrake 10.1 server with an smp kernel. The
> server runs 2 cod servers and 1 cod2 server
> >
> > Would I notice a big difference in performance if I switched to a non smp
> kernel?
> >
> > Thanks
>
>