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How to disable a CPU in a dual PII?

 
Stefan Suter
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How to disable a CPU in a dual PII?

Netserver LPr has dual PII 450Mhz. Due to application does not support dual CPU, need to disable one of two CPU. Application is a IVR and runs on UnixWare 7.1.1. BIOS doesn't show an option. How and where can this be done?
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paul matejcek
Frequent Advisor

Re: How to disable a CPU in a dual PII?

you can shut down machine unplug and remove the second processor and reboot the bios should recognize just one processor and boot fine
Hans Klarenbeek
Occasional Contributor

Re: How to disable a CPU in a dual PII?

Is there no way to install a uniprocessor kernel ???

This is coming from a Windows 2000 background where you simply downgrade the HAL - Hardware Extraction layer.

Richard Manson
Occasional Advisor

Re: How to disable a CPU in a dual PII?

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Hans : you don't even have to touch your HAL. With NT/Win2K, you have just to append "/onecpu" at this end of the line in "boot.ini"
The fastest way to troubleshot a problem.

Back to UnixWare : I believe that you can simply remove the "osmp" package ("multiprocessor support") using "pkgadd".
You *may* have to reinstall all the patches (not sure)

--Richard.
Hans Klarenbeek
Occasional Contributor

Re: How to disable a CPU in a dual PII?

I should stop posting things late @ night Oz time .....

Forgot about that one :-)