Hi All, I have a new desktop that I just installed Etch on and vmware server 1.04. the box has an AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 5600+ and 3gb of ram. When I look in the bios it shows the correct processor and the correct amount of memory, but in the VMware MUI it shows only 1 processor and 1 gb or ram. I've reinstalled it again from scratch, including doing apt-get update, apt-get update, and apt-get dist-upgrade, reinstalled vmware server 1.04, but I still show the same thing. I'm not sure how to tell if the problem is in etch or if it's in vmware itself. I use etch/vmware 1.04 on other systems that are dual core without an issue. I've swapped out the RAM dimms in case they were bad, same issue. I get this from vmstat Code: procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 0 4 27552 9108 456 811624 9 4 383 257 501 424 0 3 37 60 and top shows this: Code: top - 11:57:09 up 15:29, 1 user, load average: 3.33, 3.30, 2.95 Tasks: 61 total, 2 running, 59 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 1.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 97.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.7%si, 0.0%st Mem: 906776k total, 898508k used, 8268k free, 1264k buffers Swap: 2719736k total, 34428k used, 2685308k free, 816764k cached uname -a shows this: uname -a Code: Linux server 2.6.18-5-486 #1 Mon Dec 24 16:04:42 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux Those are all the commands I can think of that would be helpful, but I'm still a noob. Can someone please help me figure out what's going on? Thanks! Tfunk
Htop is a little better application than Top, it will show you more. If you install Xen and it sees everything that will tell you if it's a VMware issue or not. You can always vi /boot/grub/menu.1st and change your kernel back to non-xen when you're done experimenting by changing "default 0" to whatever kernel you want.
ohhhh....I like htop! It's showing only 1gb of ram...so I'm thinking this is a debian thing. I have no idea why I've got similar boxes (cheap little HP dual core AMD w/ 3gb ram...just different model) running just fine with etch and vmware 1.04 I wonder if there is something set wrong in the bios that would confuse etch? Would htop show 2 CPUS if it thought the machine had them? Is there any other way to see what etch thinks the processor is? Thanks! Tfunk
Htop will give you a bar for each CPU it detects. You sure you have the right architecture for your installation media?
I don't know what to make of this. I've spent most of today trying to get it to play nice. In /proc/cpuinfo it only shows 1 proc, but is shows the correct one (being dual core) Code: server:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 67 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 2812.799 cache size : 1024 KB 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 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm cr8legacy ts fid vid ttp tm stc bogomips : 5630.98 dmesg only shows on reference to SMP Code: dmesg | grep SMP found SMP MP-table at 000f3ea0 Digging around on the internet I found that acpi can can an issue, so it's disabled in grub Code: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-486 root=/dev/mapper/aj--server-root ro acpi=no initrd /initrd.img-2.6.18-5-486 So it appears that debain sees the proc correctly, it just isn't activating the dual core. The kernel has smp enabled by default, doesn't it? Is there a difference between the 4.02 and 4.01 in this regard? This is first time I've used 4.02. That's the only real difference I can think of between this system and the others that worked.
The system is seeing just one processor. You can try to install an SMP kernel. What's the output of Code: apt-cache search kernel | grep -i smp ?
Here is the output... Code: server:~# apt-cache search kernel | grep -i smp irqbalance - Balances irq's for SMP systems kernel-image-2.6-686-smp - Linux 2.6 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 SMP - transition package kernel-image-2.6-amd64-k8-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on AMD64 SMP systems - transition package kernel-image-2.6-em64t-p4-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on Intel EM64T SMP systems - transition package kernel-image-2.6-k7-smp - Linux 2.6 image on AMD K7 SMP - transition package server:~# I'm not sure what the output means though.
I downloaded Knoppix 5.1.1 and burned it. When it boots up it sees both processors just fine. It also sees all 3gb of memory If knoppix is based on debian I'm not sure why one can see it and the other can't.
Well...I don't have an explanation, but... I downloaded the AMD version of Etch and it installed just fine...both procs show and all 3gb of ram show just fine. I'm not sure what to make of it, but it is working just fine now. Thanks for your help!
