RE: Wrong CPU count

[Hubbard, Dwight]

And doubles the cost of licensing software that uses per cpu licensing while giving marginally better performance.

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Subject: RE: Wrong CPU count

> After upgrading  from kernel 2.4.7-10smp to 2.4.9-34smp using 
> the Red Hat
> RPM downloaded from RH Network, the CPU count on the machine 
> reported by
> dmesg and listed in /proc/cpuinfo was 4 rather than the actual 2.
> 
> This has occured on all 4 Dell 2650's that I've installed 
> this patch on.  I
> don't have any other mult-processor machines available to 
> test this with.

Congratulations, you purchased a fine PowerEdge 2650 with processors which
contain HyperThreading technology.  Each physical processor appears as two
logical processors.  This behaviour is expected, and correct. :-)

Thanks,
Matt

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