Greg Brown wrote: > I'm not sure if the Intel Extreme is even for sale yet and in case you > haven't heard about it here is the skinny: it is a dual core > hyperthreading processor. A regular hyperthread processor will be > "seen" by the OS as a dual processor (this based on my scientific > study of how many penguins showed up on the screen at Knoppix boot) so > it would seem logical that this chip would appear as a quad processing > machine to the OS. > > So my question is will Linux behave with this processor in place? > Will it see and use all "four" processors? >
I am sure it will act exactly like a dual processor Xeon server with Hyperthreading. It should show as two processors, but the scheduler does (should?) not treat it as 4 individual processors. Pat
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