[root@nusUpper ~]# dmesg | grep -i -A 1 -B 1 cpu mapped IOAPIC to ffffb000 (fec10000) Initializing CPU#0 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c03ca000 soft=c03aa000 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes) -- Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 monitor/mwait feature present. using mwait in idle threads. CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 1024K CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0 CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebf3ff 00000000 00000000 00000080 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. -- Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping 04 per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 2925.86 usecs. task migration cache decay timeout: 3 msecs. Booting processor 1/1 eip 3000 CPU 1 irqstacks, hard=c03cb000 soft=c03ab000 Initializing CPU#1 Calibrating delay loop... 5980.16 BogoMIPS (lpj=2990080) CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 monitor/mwait feature present. CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 1024K CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0 CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebf3ff 00000000 00000000 00000080 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1. CPU1: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available CPU1: Thermal monitoring enabled CPU1: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping 04 Total of 2 processors activated (11911.16 BogoMIPS). -- ..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1 checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs: passed. Brought up 2 CPUs checking if image is initramfs... it is -- pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states) isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... -- ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5) CPU0: domain 0: span 00000003 -- groups: 00000003 CPU1: domain 0: span 00000003 [root@nusUpper ~]#