Re: Kernel reports 4 CPUS instead of 2...

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Mark Cuss wrote:
| Hello all
|
| I'm working with a new Dell Poweredge 4600 Server with Dual CPUs.
However,
| Linux reports that it sees 4 CPUs...  I have opened the thing to see
if Dell
| gave me 2 extras for free, but no luck:  Attached is /proc/cpuinfo.
|
| I've tried the RedHat 8.0 stock kernel, as well as a freshly compiled
2.4.19
| but both exhibit the same behavior.
|
| The specifics on the machine:
|
| Dual Xeon 2.2 GHz CPUs (512 k L2 cache)
| 2 Gigs DDR RAM
| The chipset is a ServerWorks CMIC-HE (see attached lspci for complete
| listing).
|
| Has anyone else seen this behavior?  The only other SMP machine I have
is an
| older Dell server with Dual 1 GHz coppermines, and it reports 2 CPUs...
|
| Any information or advice is greatly appreciated...
|
| Thanks in Advance,
|
| Mark

What you're seeing there is HyperThreading in action...

|
| Mark Cuss
| Real Time Systems Analyst
| CDL Systems Ltd.
| Suite 230
| 3553 - 31 Street NW
| Calgary, Alberta
| T2L 2K7
|
| Phone [phone] extension 226
| Email:  [e-mail]
| URL: www.cdlsystems.com

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