diff --git a/sysdeps/linux/ChangeLog b/sysdeps/linux/ChangeLog
index 95bb2640..f24e64d9 100644
--- a/sysdeps/linux/ChangeLog
+++ b/sysdeps/linux/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2001-02-13  Martin Baulig  <baulig@suse.de>
+
+	Fix bug #14076.
+
+	* open.c (glibtop_open_s): Check whether /proc/1/cpu exists to
+	detect SMP support rather than reading /proc/stat; on Linux 2.4.x,
+	/proc/stat has "cpu" and "cpu0" entries even for non-SMP systems.
+
 2000-01-22  Martin Baulig  <martin@home-of-linux.org>
 
 	* procargs.c (glibtop_get_proc_args_s): Set correct `buf->size' and
diff --git a/sysdeps/linux/open.c b/sysdeps/linux/open.c
index f54a7e8d..08bfa379 100644
--- a/sysdeps/linux/open.c
+++ b/sysdeps/linux/open.c
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ glibtop_open_s (glibtop *server, const char *program_name,
 		const unsigned flags)
 {
 	char buffer [BUFSIZ], *p;
+	struct stat statb;
 	int fd, len, i;
 
 	server->name = program_name;
@@ -71,6 +72,13 @@ glibtop_open_s (glibtop *server, const char *program_name,
 
 	server->ncpu = 0;
 
+	/* On Linux 2.4.x, /proc/stat has "cpu" and "cpu0" entries even
+	 * for non-SMP systems. Checking whether /proc/<pid>/cpu exists
+	 * is a much better way to detect SMP. */
+
+	if (stat ("/proc/1/cpu", &statb))
+	    return;
+
 	fd = open (FILENAME, O_RDONLY);
 	if (fd < 0)
 		glibtop_error_io_r (server, "open (%s)", FILENAME);