On 28 June 2011 13:21, Ross Mounce <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear list, > I recently bought a fairly new Samsung N150 Plus netbook off a friend. > Dumped the windows crippleware 'Starter' OS, and installed Ubuntu 64-bit > 11.04 > which works very nicely/speedily. > Rather curiously the GUI system monitor shows it as having 4 CPUs (?)
> A) Why does it show as 4 processors? Are these all real? 1 x Dual Core x Hyper Threading = 4. 2 cores each hyperthreaded. > Have I somehow 'unlocked' another couple *hopes*? No. > B) If it's just 4 threads, can I optimally run 4 > separate instances of a 32-bit program one each on each thread/core without > losing overall efficiency? (The program I have in mind is a bit > technical/obscure, and no, it doesn't have a 64-bit version) > You could run 4 instances of an application. Whether this is more efficient / better than one/two/three copies depends on a few other factors. Try it and see. Al. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
