Dual Xeon's detected as quad xeons?!
alan
alan at clueserver.org
Fri Oct 29 06:43:00 UTC 2004
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Ben Halicki wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just installed FC2 on a server running dual xeon 3.4ghz cpus, but fc2 seems
> to be detecting four cpu's, instead of 2? I can determine this by running
> cat /proc/cpuinfo, which lists cpus 0-3. Any reason for this? I understand
> there is probably a simple solution, or something I haven't done...
You have a pair of Xeons that have hyperthreading. Hyperthread processors
show up as two processors instead of one. The operate like dual
processors kinda-sorta and add about 20% or more speed than a standard
processor.
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