Does it show one or two CPUs at bogomips 4790? I notice on my mint system, in dmesg: [ 0.180737] Brought up 2 CPUs [ 0.180739] smpboot: Total of 2 processors activated (12801.34 BogoMIPS) So do you see 2 or 1 there in your version? (Assuming you get a similar message) -----Original Message----- From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org on behalf of Derek Trotter Sent: Tue 8/13/2013 8:13 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: fix lockup issue left with one core Update. I tried encoding that video again, but without the noapic and nolapic options. Handbrake was encoding the video at between 35 and 40 frames per second. When I rebooted and tried again with the noapic and noalpic options enabled, Handbrake was encoding the same video with the same settings at 17 to 20 frames a second. So is this something unique to Handbrake or is there something else going on? Derek First I checked /proc/cpuinfo which had 4790.8 as the value for bogomips with noapic and nolapic in the grub2 config. I removed these options and rebooted. This time I got 4791.43. So I'm guessing that if I lost anything, it's not enough to matter. Am I right? Thanks On 08/13/2013 02:56 PM, Carruth, Rusty wrote: > > Compare the bogomips of the dual-core boot and the single-core boot. > >  > > If the bogomips of the single-core is 2x the bogo of the dual > core, then you’ve not lost anything – you are simply letting Linux > control the sharing of the CPU instead of the CPU. > >  > > (at least for the stupid hyperthreading stuff, all hyperthreading did > was give you two CPUs running at half the clock speed of the CPU… > Helped Windows users since Windows did such a bad job of time slicing > on a single CPU…) > >  > >  > > *From:*plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org > [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] *On Behalf Of *Derek > Trotter > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:53 PM > *To:* Main PLUG discussion list > *Subject:* fix lockup issue left with one core > >  > > So far this beast has behaved itself for 3 days. Today I handbrake on > a tv show episode I have on dvd. It's a 30 minute show and Handbrake > normally takes about 20 minutes to encode a 30 minute show. This > time I noticed the estimation of how long it would take hovered around > 45 minutes. I then opened top and pressed 1 once it started. It > showed only cpu0. Shouldn't cpu1 also be there? I looked around > online and found that using the noapic option in grub only allows one > core of a multi core processor to run. Is there any way to enable > apic and lapic if necessary without it causing my machine to lock up > again? > > Thanks > > -- > "I get my copy of the daily paper, look at the obituaries page, and if I’m not there, I carry on as usual." >  > Patrick Moore > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list -PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- "I get my copy of the daily paper, look at the obituaries page, and if I’m not there, I carry on as usual." Patrick Moore