On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 05:26:42PM -0600, Stephane Raimbault wrote: > Hi Brooks, > > Thanks for responding... > > However I'm confused by the terms used. Are you saying if I set it to 0, I > would be using the processing power of all CPU's? I'm not sure how this > halted comes in to play, cuz the only thing that comes to mind is to halt > the machine as in shutdown.... I'm probably confusing terms here... can you > expand and clarify? I just want to make sure what this all means. Also is > this an option that can be modified via sysctl -w and the /etc/sysctl.conf > file ? Or is this going to have to be set in a boot option? When halted, the logical CPUs are rendered unavailable. This is the default. If you want the logical CPUs to work, you see the boolean sysctl to 0 telling the kernel to let them work. You can set the option any time you want. -- Brooks
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