Gautam Thaker wrote:
I am running Fedora Core 8 w/ all the updates installed. The kernel version is 2.6.24.3-34.fc8 SMP. I have been using the system happily for about 2 months. I don't know just when, but in last week, the kernel sees only 1 of my 2 cores. I know i have run quite some time w/ 2 cores. I am not sure if this is related to some SW update or a bios problem (i loaded "defaults" in bios) or can the CPU actually break and be left w/ just 1 core? I do see a msg at start up, at very start, that says: i8042c: can not read CTR when initializing i8042. Can this be related to my problem? Any hints welcome, I tried lots of google search but did not find anything related. Gautam [root@zadapi-L gthaker]# more /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 107 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 1000.000 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 1 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy misalignsse ts fid vid ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps bogomips : 2010.70 clflush size : 64 THERE SHOULD BE 1 MORE PROCESSOR....!
Check the bios settings, someone else lost most of his cores and traced it back to a bios setting that caused the cpus to not be seen in some version of the kernel.
He had disabled CPUID LIMIT in the bios and cpus disappeared in some kernel versions, see if yours is enabled or disabled.
Also a number of other bios settings will cause cpus to disappear. Roger -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list