On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 12:59:59PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Thursday 08 May 2008, Moshe Gorohovsky wrote: > > Hi linux-il, > > > > Hag Sameah! > > > > I recently set up a linux PC with Intel Core2 Duo CPU. > > > > I had started the PC up from a knoppix v5.3.1 DVD. > > Linux kernel on this DVD uses graphical framebuffer console and > > shows two penguin images on start-up. My previous machine > > showed a single penguin image. It was AMD K7 CPU (single core). > > > > Why linux kernel shows two penguin images on boot? > > Does it count CPU cores? > > > > In a way. The number of penguins is indicative of the number of processors > the > machine has. I'm getting two processors on my relatively old P4-2.4GHz > machine which just has the so-called "Hyper-Threading" feature.
As far as Linux is concerened, those are two separate "processors", for the most part. e.g: you'll see two CPUs in /proc/cpuinfo . -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
