Robert Citek wrote: > Just got an Intel i7 920 processor and am running Ubuntu 8.10 server > on it. It's supposed to be a quad core CPU but when I looked in > /proc/cpuinfo it showed eight: > > According to the wikipedia article[1], that's to be expected: > > "Re-implemented Hyper-threading. Each of the four cores can process up > to two threads simultaneously, so the processor appears to the OS as > eight CPUs." > > That is a very pleasant surprise. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_i7
Until you hit a type of processing where hyperthreading decreases performance. http://www.2cpu.com/articles/42_2.html http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39237341,00.htm Perhaps the new version addresses these issues. -- David Dooling --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
