Re: how to tell if my kernel is SMP enabled?

["Daniel Bonekeeper" <thehazard@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Michael Blizek
<michi1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12:15 Tue 01 Apr     , Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>  >
>  >   a simple one this time -- how can i tell if my currently-running
>  > kernel is SMP capable?
>
>  gunzip -c /proc/config.gz |grep SMP
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You could check on /proc/sys/kernel/version for 'SMP'.
Then, a SMP kernel might be running on a single processor machine, so
you could try to set the processor affinity of a dummy process to a
possible secondary CPU with sched_setaffinity(), and if it fails,
means that you have only one CPU.

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