Dual processor but see Quad processor

[Aly Dharshi]

Its called HyperThreading some nice and fancy technology from Intel.

	Cheers,

	Aly.

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 19:11, Frank Lanitz wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Am Freitag, 5. Dezember 2003 02:53 schrieb Yeak Nai Siew:
> 
> > - 2 x 2.8 Ghz Xeon
> 
> > Then I tried RHEL AS 3, looks more stable, but the "top" also show
> > 4 CPU. This time it shows the figure. Idle is around 98% to 100%.
> > But the status run across all the 4 CPU (the physical CPU is only
> > 2...)
> >
> > Why seeing 4, not 2? Is there a way to pass kernel parameter during
> > bootup to force it to use 2 only?
> 
> Thats because of the Xeon-CPU's. They login at the Computer as two 
> each one. 
> 
> Frank Lanitz
> 
> 
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