smp kernel bash script

[Chadley Wilson]

On Wednesday 12 January 2005 23:56, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > I now understand Chadley's reformulated question this way: given you
> > have an SMP (i.e. dual CPU) system but you boot a single CPU kernel (for
> > whatever reason) - will then in /proc/stat appear cpu, cpu0 _and_ cpu1
> > or just cpu and cpu0?
> > Paul had the same insecurity when he suggested to check whether
> > /proc/cpuinfo contains a "processor : 1" entry in such a case.
> >
> > As I don't have a system where I can check this actually, someone with
> > ability to look at should answer.
>
> I do (an aging Abit BP6 with dual Celeron 433s).
>
> [james at howells proc]$ grep cpu stat
> cpu  8638 486 3637 29070 4949 115 0
> cpu0 8638 486 3637 29070 4949 115 0
> [james at howells proc]$ grep processor cpuinfo
> processor       : 0
> [james at howells proc]$ ls /sys/devices/system/cpu/
> cpu0
>
> At a quick glance, I can't see any way of spotting that this is a SMP
> system.
>
> However, SMP kernels should run perfectly well on single processor
> systems: is there any chance, Chadley, that you can run your script
> under a kernel compiled for SMP?

Yes of cousre! :), but thats not what this is about. my script installs an 
upgraded kernel and updates for systems with no network.  I was just looking 
for a way to test for how many cpus are in system regardless of the running 
kernel.

Thanks you guys, I will keep hunting there must be away in which it can be 
done.


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Chadley Wilson
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