cpuinfo problem

[Suraj]

Hai,

Yep, it surely has hyperthreading feature. In the bios, you should see
it in the Advanced Chipset features. It you don;t want to have 8
processors (these are logical processors created automatically by
hyperthreading) then, you can turn off that feature.

-Suraj

On 7/24/05, #Ramprasad B# <ramprasad_i82 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> --- srini kuthalam <kuthalam at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > /proc/cpuinfo on a Dell 6650 shows the machine as
> > having 8 CPUs (numbered 0
> > through 7). Its running AS version 3 and kernel is
> > 2.4.21-27.ELsmp
> >
> > The machine has the maximum of 4 CPUs actually. Is
> > this a bug or am I not
> > reading the file correctly?
> >
> > Thanks for any leads
> >
> > Srini
> 
> hi :),
> 
> Since these days processors are like physically one
> processor, but virtually two processors. Hence the OS
> gives u as two processors for one processor.
> That is the processor is Hyper-Threading enabled ones
> !!!
> 
> HAPPY FREE OPEN SOURCE ;)
> 
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