Re: Disabling CPUs

Reply: Kevin Oberman : "Re: Disabling CPUs"
In reply to: Kevin Oberman : "Re: Disabling CPUs"
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From: Tomek CEDRO <tomek_at_cedro.info>
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2022 21:48:23 UTC

On Sun, Sep 25, 2022 at 7:08 AM Kevin Oberman  wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2022 at 12:07 AM Amar Takhar wrote:
>>
>> On 2022-09-23 22:58 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> > Thanks, Amar! I'll give this a try tomorrow.
>>
>> No problem!
>>
> Well, no joy. My BIOS had no ability to disable cores. Confirmed with Lenovo support. So no ability to do more than cpuset.

There is that utility DMIDECODE in the port tree.. it allowed me once
to mess with the BIOS settings even though the BIOS was locked out
with a password I did not know.. so you can list and modify settings
without actually using the BIOS menu program.. maybe this would come
handy here? :-)

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CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info