I'm setting up a fresh Gentoo box, which is based on a Pentium Processor Extreme Edition 840 (Smithfield = 2 Prescott cores) mounted on an Intel D955XBK board - it's that expensive dual-core deal with hyperthreading enabled.
I am still working on the basic set-up for Gentoo, such as customizing USE flags, and haven't set up X or any desktops yet. I configured and compiled the latest gentoo-sources kernel - 2.6.20-gentoo-r8, and booted from it. Seems to run with no error messages or warnings. But when I load "top", it only lists stats about one processor. I thought that dual-core processors would appear as two processors in Linux, or 4 with hyperthreading enabled. When I set up the kernel, I did compile in the SMP support, enhanced RTC, and chose Pentium 4 in processor family, among other things. I'm attaching my current .config file in case there's something I missed. So would it be normal for a 2.6 kernel to recognize dual-core processors as "one" processor the way it appears currently in "top", or should they appear as two and I did something wrong in configuring? Thanks, Denis
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