New Hyper-Threaded CPU under RH8.0

[Ed Wilts]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 05:22:03PM -0000, Richard Hobbs wrote:
> I have a RedHat 8.0 machine that has just had it's CPU upgraded from a
> 2.8GHz Pentium 4 to a 3.0GHz Pentium 4 with Hyper-Threading.
> 
> What do I need to to to make RedHat realise the dual-CPU capabilities of the
> processor, and to display both virtual CPU's in top etc... ?

The first step is to make sure the BIOS sees both processors.  Then
simply download the smp version of the kernel and boot from it.  You're
done.

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Ed Wilts, RHCE
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