Fedora Core 4 For Dual Cores?

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Tue Dec 13 23:21:52 UTC 2005


On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 06:16:01PM -0500, Robert L Cochran wrote:
 > I'm planning on ordering an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400 with an Asrock 
 > 939Dual-SATA2 board pretty soon. Will Fedora Core 4 x86_64 be able to 
 > recognize and take advantage of both cpu cores? Is there some sort of 
 > test I can run to see if Fedora detects the 2 cores?

It should work. Though some folks are hitting a kernel bug right now
which hopefully I'll have worked out in the next update, which prevents
the kernel from seeing all the cores.

If it works, you'll see them show up in /proc/cpuinfo as if its
a second processor.

		Dave




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