Adding a second CPU

[Steve Searle]

Around 03:17am on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 (UK time), Ed Greshko scrawled:

> Langdon Stevenson wrote:
> > I have just switched my server from one 450 Mhz CPU to a pair of 500 Mhz
> > CPUs.  No problems so far.
> > 
> > Machine started and detected both CPUs. Fedora 7 booted and
> > 
> >   cat /proc/cpuinfo
> > 
> > returns all the correct information.  Bot CPUs show up as expected.
> > 
> > My question: do I need to do anything else to Fedora to make it use both
> > CPUs?  Like install a different kernel?  Or will it just use the second
> > CPU?
> > 
> > Thanks for any feedback.
> 
> You are done....

Indeed you are.  And if you run "top", and press "1" (both without
quotes) you will see a separate line for each CPU, rather than a
combined one.

Steve

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A:  Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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