use only one core of dual core system

[Bill Rees]

James Kosin wrote:

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>>I'm trying to isolate a driver problem that appears to be smp
>>related so I would like to take the system with the smp kernel and
>>boot it so that only one cpu is used. Ideally, I'll be able to tell
>>if running off of two cores is causing problems with the usb driver.
>>So the only thing I've found that I can pass to the kernel during
>>boot is maxprocs which doesn't seem to actually deal with the number
>>of cpus but rather the number of processes.
>>Is there any boot variable that will prevent the second cpu from
>>coming up?
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>>bill
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>Bill,
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>Try installing the non-smp kernel and booting that kernel, instead of
>the smp kernel.
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>James
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This I will do but I would also like to be able to pass an arg to the 
smp kernel telling it to only use on core.

bill