Re: SMP

From: David J. Weller-Fahy <dave-lists-aklug@weller-fahy.com>
Date: Thu Jun 03 2004 - 19:38:33 AKDT

* Paul Carr <paulcarr@barrow.com> [2004-06-03 19:02 -0800]:
> I have a dual Xeon system running Fedora Core 2. When looking at
> the system using info center, I see four processors listed
> (cpu0-cpu3). Is this a function of hyper-threading, a software bug,
> or does a Xeon really look like 2 processors to the software?

AFAIK each newer Pentium 4 based processor looks like two processors to
any hyper-threading aware OS. That was the case when I installed
FreeBSD and Mandrake on my new laptop.

HTH,

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