Re: broken maxcpus in 2.4.24

From: Marc-Christian Petersen
Date: Tue Feb 03 2004 - 03:57:15 EST


On Tuesday 03 February 2004 00:37, Dan Christian wrote:

Hi Dan,

> I compiled a vanilla 2.4.24 for a 2 processor Xeon.
> I set CONFIG_NR_CPUS to 4 (2 CPUs x 2 hyperthreads each).
> When I boot the kernel, /proc/cpuinfo only shows 2 cpus (0-1) and
> performance is bad.
> I reconfigure CONFIG_NR_CPUS back to 32. Now it shows 4 cpus (0-3) and
> performance is normal.
> Is this a bug or am misunderstanding how to set this configuration
> variable?

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ciao, Marc

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