Andreas Vinsander wrote:
A little harsh I think!
Agree!
:)
If your running a dual-core, double-processor system, it's effectively
a quad system (no dual), so SMP should be build for at least 4 processors.
Here's another dumb one:
Is hyperthreading enabled in the dual-core procesors? Thus making a
single dual core Xeon count as 4 processors kernel-wize?
If I remember rightly, yes. As far as how the processor presents itself
to the system, each core itself is an independent processor. This goes
for the hyper-treading system from Intel aswell, as it's treated as 2
cores, but the processor controls what the core can do depending on
what's available in the processor and the code is running at the time.
Just interesting that if you bought 2 processors, now with dual-core
hyper-threading your system suddenly thinks it's an 8-way beomoth! :D
I'd hate to think of the licensing fees Micro$oft could charge for that
if the mood caught them right! :-/
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