AC 1.0 on AS4100

[Sergey Tikhonov]

Hello,

Well, I've never ran Linux on SMP alpha machine (although I have 
experience of running OpenVMS on AS 4100, but that was a long time ago). 
So my answers questions would be "wild guesses" ones. :)
pawel.oleksiak at rieberson.no wrote:

>Witam / Hello
>
>It isn't stupid question... Of course I loaded SMP kernel... I send this
>question earlier but nobody answered.
>
>My boot log is empty and earlier boot log has only information about
>services (it is ok).
>
>I have some informations in dmesg:
>
>TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 3145728 bytes)
>TCP: Hash tables configured (established 524288 bind 65536)
>NET: Registered protocol family 1
>CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
> domain 0: span 00000000,0000000f
>  groups: 00000000,00000001 00000000,00000002 00000000,00000004
>00000000,00000008
>CPU1 attaching sched-domain:
> domain 0: span 00000000,0000000f
>  groups: 00000000,00000002 00000000,00000004 00000000,00000008
>00000000,00000001
>CPU2 attaching sched-domain:
> domain 0: span 00000000,0000000f
>  groups: 00000000,00000004 00000000,00000008 00000000,00000001
>00000000,00000002
>CPU3 attaching sched-domain:
> domain 0: span 00000000,0000000f
>  groups: 00000000,00000008 00000000,00000001 00000000,00000002
>00000000,00000004
>  
>
This looks like the kernel found more than one CPU. :)

>Freeing unused kernel memory: 400k freed
>qla1280: QLA1040 found on PCI bus 2, dev 0
>scsi(0:0): Resetting SCSI BUS
>scsi0 : QLogic QLA1040 PCI to SCSI Host Adapter
>       Firmware version:  7.65.00, Driver version 3.25
>  Vendor: DEC       Model: RZ29B    (C) DEC  Rev: 0016
>  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>scsi(0:0:0:0): Sync: period 10, offset 12, Wide, Tagged queuing: depth 255
>
>[...]
>
>Please tell me... In RH 7.2 I could check each CPU in "top". Now I see only
>one CPU and I feel that server is slower now. Please explain me.
>  
>
Try "cat /proc/cpuinfo". It might be very very possible that "top" 
somehow doesn't show multiple CPU on alpha.
Check "/var/log/message" and try to find begining of the bootup sequence 
(information in dmesg.log gets
truncated overtime).

>Second case.... XWindows... It is not important for me but i'd like know,
>why it doesn't work on my Alpha. my graphics is S3 virge/Trio 64 (this
>information i got during instalation)
>  
>
lspci command would give more info about what graphic card is installed.
Mine is "S3 Inc. 86c764/765 [Trio32/64/64V+]" and it works.

Regards,

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Sergey Tikhonov
Solvo Ltd.
tsv at solvo.ru