Dear Folks, I am running Debian stretch on a pc with an AMD FX 8350 chip and a sabertooth FX 990 motherboard.
I am interested to check a few things are working as they would be expected to here. I ran cat /proc/cpuinfo and got processor : 7 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 21 model : 2 model name : AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor stepping : 0 microcode : 0x600084f cpu MHz : 4013.300 cache size : 2048 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 8 core id : 3 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 23 initial apicid : 7 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx f16c lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs xop skinit wdt lwp fma4 tce nodeid_msr tbm topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb cpb hw_pstate vmmcall bmi1 arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold bugs : fxsave_leak sysret_ss_attrs null_seg bogomips : 8026.82 TLB size : 1536 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts ttp tm 100mhzsteps hwpstate cpb eff_freq_ro Does this seem reasonable? Should the number of cpu cores be 8 rather than 4 (listed above)? If you look at the discussion below: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2233301 Only one cpu was working out of all 8 for the original poster until they turned the ACPI setting to ACPI=force apparently. I suppose I could check the grub.cfg file in /boot or wherever it lives and see what the ACPI setting is in my case. In gentoo you set makeopts to -j9 and make =-j9 when you compile a fresh kernel and then it should run quickly and as long as your power supply unit is in good shape then things should go smoothly.... In Debian I think there is something called makeflags but I am not sure (comments appreciated here). I am using kernel 4.8.2 I think. I could download e.g. kernel 4.9.0 and then manually compile it using eg make menuconfig and the existing .config file. If I did that would it be make -j9 by default in debian or do I need to specify that in the same way as you would in gentoo? Also it should then compile pretty swiftly and smoothly (provided the power supply is a good one) should it not? Suggestions on performance testing the FX 8350 chip on this install are welcome. Regards Michael Fothergill
