SMP Kernel on non-SMP Machine

[alan]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, W Strater wrote:

> I just installed FC5 on a Pentium 4 based machine and ended up with a 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp kernel. I ran `yum update` and was upgraded to 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp. The problem is that my motherboard, Intel D865PERL, is a single CPU motherboard and my Intel CPU P4 2.8 pre-dates any dual core technologies. The /proc/cpuinfo did list two CPU's.

Probably a hyperthread version of the P4.  Those will show up at 2 
processors.  (And kinda sorta work like 2 as well.)

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