Re: use only one core of dual core system

From: Bill Rees (breeze_at_smsonline.com)
Date: 10/18/05

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    James Kosin wrote:

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    >Bill Rees 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?
    >>
    >>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.
    >
    >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

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