Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 10 Jun 2003 13:36:49 -0700 | From | Samuel Flory <> | Subject | Re: Wrong number of cpus detected/reported |
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John Appleby wrote:
>>After the upgrade the system is reporting that the machine has 8 cpu >>instead of 4. I have been looking for some kind of information on the >>Internet (www.google.com/linux) about that but I didn't have success. >> >> > >I suspect that it is identifying 4 Xeon CPUs with Hyperthreading, which >will correctly double the amount of processors your kernel thinks you >have. Intel's Hyperthreading > >This ought to be a good thing... the only thing I don't quite understand >is that I thought Hyperthreading was added in 2.4.17. > > >
Red Hat enabled basic hyperthreading support in their 2.4.9 eratta kernels some where along the line. I just didn't think 1.4 Xeons did HT. (Maybe the MP Xeons are different from the DP xeons.)
-- There is no such thing as obsolete hardware. Merely hardware that other people don't want. (The Second Rule of Hardware Acquisition) Sam Flory <sflory@rackable.com>
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