redhat detecting too many cpus?

Thu Jan 12 01:32:50 UTC 2006

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 11:18 -0800, Harjinder Singh wrote:
>   I'm currently running Red Hat ES 4.0 on a server, which has two Xeon 2.8 MHz Processors, installed.  However when I run cat /proc/cpuinfo to retrieve the CPU info it lists 4 processors installed. 
>  
>  Is there something wrong with the configuration of my Linux installation?  Does anyone know why it would list 4 cpus when I only have 2 installed?
>  
>  Below is the out of cat /proc/cpuinfo,  Thanks!

It seems that your machine is HT-enabled. Check this out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Xeon

Would you like a precise information, you should check with your vendor.

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