On Sunday 16 April 2006 07:17 pm, CJ Kelley Climbed A Telegraph Pole and
Clicked:
> JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 19:32:24 +0000
>
> Dick Gevers got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:
> > >It never even occurred to me when I was buying my new P4 rig, to ask
> > >whether the CPU is dual core or not...
> > >
> > >The MOBO supports it, but is there some way to tell one way or the
> > > other?
> > >
> > >Here I am, looking for another way to break my system ;-)
> >
> > Usually the P4's are, so use the smp kernel and it will show 2 cpus as
> > running, both in dmesg and e.g. in gkrellm. But to be sure look up the
> > exact type at www.intel.com. But they're not very clear whether or not ht
> > is enabled / whether or not they are 64-bit enabled: you have to look
> > real hard.
>
> So ht and dual core are the same thing? I ask because in MCC, it shows
> this:
>
> Flags: âfpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat
> pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm pni monitor ds_cpl
> tm2 cid cx16 xtpr
>
> I noticed that 'ht' (Hyperthreading?), but I wasn't sure if that meant the
> same << HT = HyperThreading ... makes the processor faster >> thing.
>
> How much more 'oomph' would I get out of an smp kernel? This thing's pretty
> fast as it is...
>
> > BTW, it's not a stupid question ;)
> >
> :-)
>
> << If you bought the mobo and not the machine itself, then the
> documentation should tell you wheather it is dual processer complient or
> not..the mobo documentation may also tell wheather or not the mobo is dual
> processor complient >>
cat /proc/cpuinfo
single processor should just have
processor : 0
dual core should have
processor : 0
processor : 1
4 dual core Opterons (let me stop to drool here)
would have processors 0 through 7
Hope this helps
benja22
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