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RH9 w/four Xeon Procs, Top command shows two CPU's but should be four.

Is this normal?  Is it possible for Top to show all four CPU states?

Along these lines, this  same RH9 server has 6 GB Ram, meminfo shows me:
(Kernel  2.4.20-30.9bigmem)

        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  3169374208 49844224 3119529984        0  6606848 16269312
Swap: 2089209856        0 2089209856
MemTotal:      3095092 kB
MemFree:       3046416 kB
MemShared:           0 kB
Buffers:          6452 kB
Cached:          15888 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:          27040 kB
ActiveAnon:       5000 kB
ActiveCache:     22040 kB
Inact_dirty:       152 kB
Inact_laundry:       0 kB
Inact_clean:       148 kB
Inact_target:     5468 kB
HighTotal:     2227844 kB
HighFree:      2204212 kB
LowTotal:       867248 kB
LowFree:        842204 kB
SwapTotal:     2040244 kB
SwapFree:      2040244 kB

Thanks for any and all help.

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The memory issue is normal.
The address space of 32-bit processors can only map 4GB of memory at the same time.

And, most probably, your kernel is set-up so that you have a 3GB/1GB split. 3GB for user space processes and 1GB for the kernel.

The two remainder Gigs are not visible but are used by the kernel as paging memory.

I'm no real memory addressing expert, so maybe some people might explain in more details what's really useable and when.

About your procs, what does cat /proc/cpuinfo show ?
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cat /proc/cpuinfo is as follows:
==================================
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 2
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) MP CPU 2.50GHz
stepping        : 5
cpu MHz         : 2494.943
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 1
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm
bogomips        : 4967.62
==================================
processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 2
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) MP CPU 2.50GHz
stepping        : 5
cpu MHz         : 2494.943
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 1
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm
bogomips        : 4980.73
==================================


So I should indeed see four like this versus the two?

And Thanks Alf for the speedy response.  I know just enough Linux to be dangerous
/run to the hills!
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Alrighty then.

You would think a 32,000 dollar server from IBM would have the correct SMP settings, considering they put the CPU's in.

I'll give the BIOS settings a shot, and again Thanks Alf for the help, it is greatly appreciated.
Quick addition.

The BIOS shows 4 CPU's installed upon boot.

Anyone know if there is a 'kernel-bigmem-SMP' instead of just using the kernel-bigmem for those systems with excessive ram. (<-If that's even possible, lol)
check what "dmesg" has to say after booting.
dmesg | more
 L2 cache: 512K
CPU: L3 cache: 1024K
CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU:     After generic, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: L3 cache: 1024K
CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU:     After generic, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU0: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) MP CPU 2.50GHz stepping 05
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 1463.12 usecs.
task migration cache decay timeout: 10 msecs.
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Booting processor 1/2 eip 2000
Initializing CPU#1
masked ExtINT on CPU#1
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Calibrating delay loop... 4980.73 BogoMIPS
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: L3 cache: 1024K
CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
CPU:     After generic, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU1: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) MP CPU 2.50GHz stepping 05

Total of 2 processors activated (9948.36 BogoMIPS).

ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
Setting 14 in the phys_id_present_map
...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 14 ... ok.
Setting 13 in the phys_id_present_map
...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 13 ... ok.
init IO_APIC IRQs
 IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 14-2, 14-3, 14-4, 14-5, 14-7, 14-9, 14-10, 14-15, 14-17, 14-19, 14-20, 14-21, 14-22, 14-23, 14-24, 14-25, 14-26, 14-27, 14-28, 14-29, 14
-30, 14-31, 14-32, 14-33, 14-34, 14-35, 14-36, 14-37, 14-38, 14-43, 14-44, 14-45, 14-46, 14-47, 14-48, 14-49, 14-50, 13-24, 13-25, 13-26, 13-27, 13-28, 13-29,
 13-30, 13-31, 13-32, 13-33, 13-34, 13-35, 13-36, 13-37, 13-38, 13-39, 13-40, 13-41, 13-42, 13-43, 13-44, 13-45, 13-46, 13-47, 13-48, 13-49, 13-50 not connect
ed.
..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=0 pin2=-1
number of MP IRQ sources: 38.
number of IO-APIC #14 registers: 51.
number of IO-APIC #13 registers: 51.
testing the IO APIC.......................

IO APIC #14......
.... register #00: 0E000000
.......    : physical APIC id: 0E
.... register #01: 00320011
.......     : max redirection entries: 0032
An unexpected IO-APIC was found. If this kernel release is less than
three months old please report this to linux-smp@vger.kernel.org
.......     : PRQ implemented: 0
.......     : IO APIC version: 0011
.... register #02: 00000000
.......     : arbitration: 00

.... IRQ redirection table:
(You want this table too?)

IO APIC #13......
.... register #00: 0D000000
.......    : physical APIC id: 0D
.... register #01: 00320011
.......     : max redirection entries: 0032
An unexpected IO-APIC was found. If this kernel release is less than
three months old please report this to linux-smp@vger.kernel.org
.......     : PRQ implemented: 0
.......     : IO APIC version: 0011
.... register #02: 00000000
.......     : arbitration: 00
.... IRQ redirection table:
(You want this table too?)


..... CPU clock speed is 2495.1186 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 99.8046 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 998046, slice: 332682
CPU0<T0:998032,T1:665344,D:6,S:332682,C:998046>
cpu: 1, clocks: 998046, slice: 332682
CPU1<T0:998032,T1:332656,D:12,S:332682,C:998046>
checking TSC synchronization across CPUs: passed.
Starting migration thread for cpu 0
smp_num_cpus: 2.
Starting migration thread for cpu 1
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd47d, last bus=11
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Discovered peer bus 01
PCI: Discovered peer bus 02
PCI: Discovered peer bus 05
PCI: Discovered peer bus 07
PCI: Discovered peer bus 09
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I3,P0) -> 39
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I4,P0) -> 16
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I5,P3) -> 18
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I5,P3) -> 18
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B1,I3,P0) -> 40
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B1,I3,P1) -> 41
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B1,I4,P0) -> 42
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B1,I4,P1) -> 11
PCI: Enabling Via external APIC routing
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 00:05.2, from 5 to 2
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 00:05.3, from 5 to 2
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS not found.
Starting kswapd
allocated 32 pages and 32 bhs reserved for the highmem bounces
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta3-.2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:05.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:05.1
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x0700-0x0707, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x0708-0x070f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8081N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 32768 buckets, 256Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 255k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Fusion MPT base driver 2.03.00
Copyright (c) 1999-2002 LSI Logic Corporation
mptbase: Initiating ioc0 bringup
ioc0: 53C1030: Capabilities={Initiator}
mptbase: Initiating ioc1 bringup
ioc1: 53C1030: Capabilities={Initiator}
mptbase: 2 MPT adapters found, 2 installed.
Fusion MPT SCSI Host driver 2.03.00
scsi0 : ioc0: LSI53C1030, FwRev=01000e00h, Ports=1, MaxQ=222, IRQ=40
scsi1 : ioc1: LSI53C1030, FwRev=01000e00h, Ports=1, MaxQ=222, IRQ=41
blk: queue c573c618, I/O limit 4294967295Mb (mask 0xffffffffffffffff)
  Vendor: IBM-ESXS  Model: ST3146807LC   FN  Rev: B25E
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
blk: queue c573c418, I/O limit 4294967295Mb (mask 0xffffffffffffffff)
  Vendor: IBM-ESXS  Model: DTN146C3UCDY10FN  Rev: S25J
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
blk: queue c573c018, I/O limit 4294967295Mb (mask 0xffffffffffffffff)
  Vendor: IBM       Model: 25P3495a S320  1  Rev: 1
  Type:   Processor                          ANSI SCSI revision: 02
blk: queue f75dbc18, I/O limit 4294967295Mb (mask 0xffffffffffffffff)
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 286748000 512-byte hdwr sectors (146815 MB)
Partition check:
 sda: sda1 sda2
SCSI device sdb: 286748000 512-byte hdwr sectors (146815 MB)
 sdb: sdb1
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k freed
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 20:34:39 Feb  4 2004
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1980, IRQ 18
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x19a0, IRQ 18
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x19a0, IRQ 18
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,17), internal journal
Adding Swap: 2040244k swap-space (priority -1)
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,1), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
parport_pc: Via 686A parallel port disabled in BIOS
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
tg3.c:v1.5 (March 21, 2003)
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95704A6) rev 2002 PHY(5704)] (PCIX:100MHz:64-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet <mac addy>
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
eth1: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95704A6) rev 2002 PHY(5704)] (PCIX:100MHz:64-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet <mac addy>
tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.

uname -a
2.4.20-30.9bigmem #1 SMP Wed Feb 4 20:27:00 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux


Ok so I clearly see it only recognizing two cpu's but the BIOS clearly states at Boot, '4 CPU's Installed'.

That message up there about the kernel being more than three months old wouldn't apply to this kernel would it?

Thanks | more


I'd be interested by what's happening before that. You might want to check
/var/log/boot.log.

Something like :

LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0001] id[0x0] enabled[1])
CPU 0 (0x0000) enabledProcessor #0 Pentium 4(tm) XEON(tm) APIC version 16

LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0002] id[0x2] enabled[1])
CPU 1 (0x0200) enabledProcessor #2 Pentium 4(tm) XEON(tm) APIC version 16

LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0003] id[0x1] enabled[0])
CPU 2 (0x0100) disabled
LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0004] id[0x3] enabled[0])
CPU 3 (0x0300) disabled
IOAPIC (id[0x2] address[0xfec00000] global_irq_base[0x0])
INT_SRC_OVR (bus[0] irq[0x0] global_irq[0x2] polarity[0x0] trigger[0x0])
INT_SRC_OVR (bus[0] irq[0x9] global_irq[0x9] polarity[0x1] trigger[0x3])
4 CPUs total


The BIOS states '4 CPUs installed'. That does not mean they are active !
Did you check the BIOS setup ?
Yes I certainly did check the BIOS.
Let me describe all of the settings available concerning SMP or CPU's within the BIOS.

<Menu Item>Processor Settings
<Sub Menu>CPU ID's
Processor 1   F25
Processor 2   F25
Processor 3   F25
Processor 4   F25
Processor 5  
Processor 6  
Processor 7  
Processor 8  

<Sub Menu>Processor Speeds
Processor 1   2.5 Ghz
Processor 2   2.5 Ghz
Processor 3   2.5 Ghz
Processor 4   2.5 Ghz
Processor 5  
Processor 6  
Processor 7  
Processor 8  

<Sub Menu>L2 Cache
Processor 1   512
Processor 2   512
Processor 3   512
Processor 4   512
Processor 5  
Processor 6  
Processor 7  
Processor 8  

<Sub Menu>L3 Cache
Processor 1   1024
Processor 2   1024
Processor 3   1024
Processor 4   1024
Processor 5  
Processor 6  
Processor 7  
Processor 8  

<Sub Menu>CPU Socket State
Processor 1   [Enabled]
Processor 2   [Enabled]
Processor 3   [Enabled]
Processor 4   [Enabled]
Processor 5   [Enabled]
Processor 6   [Enabled]
Processor 7   [Enabled]
Processor 8   [Enabled]

<Sub Menu>SMP Expansion Module 2 State   [Enabled]

<Sub Menu>CPU Options
Hyper Threading Technology   [Disabled]
System Cache Type    [Write back]

And thats it, every single instance I can find in the BIOS concerning SMP and or CPU's.  It looks to me that they are happy in the BIOS.
=========================================
<BOOT.LOG>
Mar 25 10:12:23 moas rhnsd: rhnsd shutdown succeeded
Mar 25 10:12:23 moas atd: atd shutdown succeeded
Mar 25 10:12:23 moas rc: Stopping keytable:  succeeded
Mar 25 10:12:23 moas xfs: xfs shutdown succeeded
Mar 25 10:12:24 moas gpm: gpm shutdown succeeded
Mar 25 10:12:24 moas sshd: sshd -TERM succeeded
Mar 25 10:12:24 moas xinetd: xinetd shutdown succeeded
Mar 25 10:12:24 moas crond: crond shutdown succeeded
Mar 25 10:12:24 moas ntpd: ntpd shutdown succeeded
Mar 25 10:12:24 moas dd: 1+0 records in
Mar 25 10:12:24 moas dd: 1+0 records out
Mar 25 10:12:24 moas random: Saving random seed:  succeeded
Mar 25 10:12:24 moas nfslock: rpc.statd shutdown succeeded
Mar 25 10:12:24 moas portmap: portmap shutdown succeeded
Mar 25 10:14:56 moas syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
Mar 25 10:14:56 moas syslog: klogd startup succeeded
Mar 25 10:14:56 moas portmap: portmap startup succeeded
Mar 25 10:14:56 moas nfslock: rpc.statd startup succeeded
Mar 25 10:14:57 moas keytable: Loading keymap:
Mar 25 10:14:57 moas keytable:
Mar 25 10:14:57 moas keytable:
Mar 25 10:14:57 moas rc: Starting keytable:  succeeded
Mar 25 10:14:57 moas random: Initializing random number generator:  succeeded
Mar 25 10:14:57 moas rc: Starting pcmcia:  succeeded
Mar 25 10:14:57 moas netfs: Mounting other filesystems:  succeeded
Mar 25 10:14:57 moas autofs: automount startup succeeded
Mar 25 10:14:53 moas iptables:  succeeded
Mar 25 10:14:53 moas iptables:  succeeded
Mar 25 10:14:53 moas sysctl: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
Mar 25 10:14:53 moas sysctl: net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
Mar 25 10:14:53 moas sysctl: kernel.sysrq = 0
Mar 25 10:14:53 moas sysctl: kernel.core_uses_pid = 1
Mar 25 10:14:53 moas network: Setting network parameters:  succeeded
Mar 25 10:14:58 moas sshd:  succeeded
Mar 25 10:14:53 moas network: Bringing up loopback interface:  succeeded
Mar 25 10:15:02 moas xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded
Mar 25 10:15:02 moas ntpd: ntpd startup succeeded
Mar 25 10:15:02 moas gpm: gpm startup succeeded
Mar 25 10:15:03 moas crond: crond startup succeeded
Mar 25 10:15:04 moas xfs: xfs startup succeeded
Mar 25 10:15:04 moas anacron: anacron startup succeeded
Mar 25 10:15:04 moas atd: atd startup succeeded
Mar 25 10:15:04 moas rhnsd: rhnsd startup succeeded
Mar 25 13:15:37 moas rhnsd: rhnsd shutdown succeeded
Mar 25 13:15:37 moas atd: atd shutdown succeeded
Mar 25 13:15:37 moas rc: Stopping keytable:  succeeded
Mar 25 13:15:37 moas xfs: xfs shutdown succeeded
Mar 25 13:15:37 moas gpm: gpm shutdown succeeded
Mar 25 13:15:37 moas sshd: sshd -TERM succeeded
Mar 25 13:15:37 moas xinetd: xinetd shutdown succeeded
Mar 25 13:15:38 moas crond: crond shutdown succeeded
Mar 25 13:15:38 moas ntpd: ntpd shutdown succeeded
Mar 25 13:15:38 moas dd: 1+0 records in
Mar 25 13:15:38 moas dd: 1+0 records out
Mar 25 13:15:38 moas random: Saving random seed:  succeeded
Mar 25 13:15:38 moas nfslock: rpc.statd shutdown succeeded
Mar 25 13:15:38 moas portmap: portmap shutdown succeeded
Mar 25 13:20:38 moas syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
Mar 25 13:20:38 moas syslog: klogd startup succeeded
Mar 25 13:20:38 moas portmap: portmap startup succeeded
Mar 25 13:20:38 moas nfslock: rpc.statd startup succeeded
Mar 25 13:20:38 moas keytable: Loading keymap:
Mar 25 13:20:38 moas keytable:
Mar 25 13:20:38 moas keytable: Loading system font:
Mar 25 13:20:38 moas keytable:
Mar 25 13:20:39 moas rc: Starting keytable:  succeeded
Mar 25 13:20:39 moas random: Initializing random number generator:  succeeded
Mar 25 13:20:39 moas rc: Starting pcmcia:  succeeded
Mar 25 13:20:39 moas netfs: Mounting other filesystems:  succeeded
Mar 25 13:20:39 moas autofs: automount startup succeeded
Mar 25 13:20:35 moas iptables:  succeeded
Mar 25 13:20:35 moas iptables:  succeeded
Mar 25 13:20:35 moas sysctl: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
Mar 25 13:20:35 moas sysctl: net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
Mar 25 13:20:35 moas sysctl: kernel.sysrq = 0
Mar 25 13:20:35 moas sysctl: kernel.core_uses_pid = 1
Mar 25 13:20:40 moas sshd:  succeeded
Mar 25 13:20:35 moas network: Setting network parameters:  succeeded
Mar 25 13:20:35 moas network: Bringing up loopback interface:  succeeded
Mar 25 13:20:44 moas xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded
Mar 25 13:20:44 moas ntpd: ntpd startup succeeded
Mar 25 13:20:44 moas gpm: gpm startup succeeded
Mar 25 13:20:45 moas crond: crond startup succeeded
Mar 25 13:20:45 moas xfs: xfs startup succeeded
Mar 25 13:20:45 moas anacron: anacron startup succeeded
Mar 25 13:20:46 moas atd: atd startup succeeded
Mar 25 13:20:46 moas rhnsd: rhnsd startup succeeded
================================================

/wave and thanks for your time as always.
You're welcome, but I'm not sure I can help you a lot more.
I've surfed a lot trying to find similar cases. It appears that some people have had some luck in switching to a more recent kernel.
Ok that's what I'll do, find a more recent kernel.

TGIF and have a great weekend!

/wave