Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: Detecting SMP in user space

[Don Dugger <n0ano@valinux.com>]

Andreas-

On my system the boot messages are copied into `/var/log/messages'
so you can always go there even if the boot log is cleared.

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:56:17PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> |> Andreas Schwab (schwab@suse.de) said: 
> |> > |> How about simply running 'top' or a 'dmesg | grep CPU'?
> |> > 
> |> > As I already said, I'm running a UP kernel, thus top only ever sees one
> |> > CPU.  The latter fails if the boot messages have already been cleared from
> |> > the kernel log.
> |> 
> |> I believe the ACPI boot messages on ia64 tell you how many processors
> |> it found.
> 
> How can I get at the ACPI boot messages if the kernel log is already
> cleared?
> 
> Andreas.
> 
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