Hey people Doesnt the new P4 Xeon now support multithreading thus if the bios and software are setup correctly each Xeon can emulate the processing characteristics of 2 cpu's for every one installed.
last I looked this was mentioned on http://www.tomshardware.com were they have a screen shot of a single Xeon showing up as 2 cpu's in windows XP. On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 16:36, Wienand Ian wrote: > >Now for the question: > >The same server is a dual Xeon 1800Mhz, I have checked under the hood, > >and it is that, but when I cat /proc/cpuinfo it says there is 4 cpu's, > >id's 0 - 3. Why? > > lucky you > > http://www.intel.com/technology/hyperthread/ > > the jury is still out on just how useful this is, but you have it > > -i > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.wienand.org > ********************************************************************** > CAUTION: This message may contain confidential information intended only for the use >of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, >any use or disclosure of this message is prohibited. If you received this message in >error please notify Mail Administrators immediately. You must obtain all necessary >intellectual property clearances before doing anything other than displaying this >message on your monitor. There is no intellectual property licence. Any views >expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily >reflect the views of Woolworths Ltd. > ********************************************************************** > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
