Can someone check my syslog

[DaniloSilva]

Can someone check my syslog to make sure all is ok?

 

I've tested unRAID on my hardware for a week and all seems perfect but I'd like be be as sure as possible before I start trusting with my data.

 

File attached but also pasted here: http://paste-bin.com/view/9d98ef7b

 

Thanks,

 

Dan

syslog-2010-12-17.txt

[DaniloSilva]

OK I'll take that as A-OK then :-)

[Joe L.]

Only thing I saw was this:

Dec 17 16:07:03 NAS kernel: 8 Processors exceeds NR_CPUS limit of 4

 

basically, your CPU is more than unRAID's kernel is compiled for.  It won't hurt anything.  You must have a very nice CPU plugged into the motherboard.

It will treat it as a 4CPU machine.

[Ken R.]

 

 

Intel i3's do that;

 

Dec  4 11:40:45 kingsnake kernel: 8 Processors exceeds NR_CPUS limit of 4

Dec  4 11:40:45 kingsnake kernel: SMP: Allowing 4 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs

 

always struck me as strange.

[Joe L.]

 

 

Intel i3's do that;

 

Dec  4 11:40:45 kingsnake kernel: 8 Processors exceeds NR_CPUS limit of 4

Dec  4 11:40:45 kingsnake kernel: SMP: Allowing 4 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs

 

always struck me as strange.

It is because the unRAID kernel was configured to use only 4 CPUs.

 

The entry in the .config file is:

CONFIG_NR_CPUS=4

 

If you had a need, and an appropriate CPU/motherboard, you could probably re-compile a custom kernel that would use the other CPUs.  (not that they would have anything to do unless you were doing some multiple serious VMWARE sessions)

 

[Ken R.]

yeah but i3's don't have more than 4 cores?

[BRiT]

AFAIK...

 

The i3's have 2 cores which are both hyperthreaded (HTT) so it shows as 4 CPU cores. It isn't until the i5/i7 Quad Cores that you get 4 cores all of which are hyperthreaded (HTT) so it shows as 8 cores.

[Ken R.]

as I said, seems strange that an i3 is detected as eight cores.

[Joe L.]

as I said, seems strange that an i3 is detected as eight cores.

It is 2 CPUs but they are hyper-threaded, so linux thinks there are 8.

[DaniloSilva]

The CPU is not fancy at all, it's a dual core AMD Athlon II X2 240e 2.8GHz: http://products.amd.com/en-us/DesktopCPUDetail.aspx?id=694

 

I built my unRAID for efficiency but wanted enough grunt to enable SABnzb and Sickbeard at some point in the future when those plugins have matured a little.