Core Duo SMP Support issue

[Mario Vukelic]

On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 22:28 +1000, Sam Currie wrote:
> Does anyone have any ideas?  I put Ubuntu on to replace Vista which
> was running like a dog.  Ubuntu has been very speedy and I can't wait
> to unlock my second core!

Did you ever check that Vista saw both cores? I don't know about your
Sony, but my HP has a BIOS setting (which it used by default) that makes
it represent only one CPU to the OS. Changing the setting made it show
two cores.

Note that the core is not disabled by this BIOS setting, i.e., an
application that is now shown to use 100% of one of the two visible
cores would be shown to use 50% of one visible core with the default
setting.