[erlang-questions] schedulers binding error

[Mikael Pettersson]

Angel writes:
 > Hello!
 > 
 > after compiling erlang on a itanium numa machine i cant use +sbt flag
 > 
 > No cpu topology is detected, after asking here and playing a bit I got:
 > 
 > erl +sct L0c0p0N0:L1c1p1N0:L2c2p2N1:L3c3p3N1:L4c4p4N2:L5c5p5N2:L6c6p6N3:L7c7p7N3:L8c8p8N4:L9c9p9N4:L10c10p10N5:L11c11p11N5
 > 
 > that get me 12 procs over 6 numa nodes, good!!
 > 
 > but playing a bit with a lot of processes showed me that erlang was not fully use all proccesors
 > 
 > So i relayed to use +sbt to see how binding changes cpu stats....
 > 
 > but erlang refuses to use any bindings:
 > 
 > 
 > angel@REDACTED otp_src_R13B04]$ erl +scyt ... +sbt u  +A6 
 > setting scheduler bind type 'u' failed: not supported
 > ....
 > 
 > 
 > angel@REDACTED otp_src_R13B04]$ erl +scyt ... +sbt nnps  +A6 
 > setting scheduler bind type 'nnps' failed: not supported
 > ....
 > 
 > My kernel is 2.4.21-sgi306rp12  Its too old for this!!! isn't it?

2.4.21, even if maintained by some enterprise distro, is prehistoric.
You should upgrade.