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Re: Should one CPU(Hyper-Threading) machine install SMP kernel?



On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 13:19 +0100, Dick Davies wrote:
> On 27/09/05, michael <linux@networkingnewsletter.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 08:10 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Bob Proulx wrote:
> > > > Dick Davies wrote:
> > > > > Yup, use SMP. I get 2 cpus in cpuinfo that way (although top doesn't
> > > > > see them for some reason).
> >
> > cpuinfo will tell you about the logical CPUs; top will tell you about
> > the physical CPUs.
> 
> that's a bit daft. why would user code care about physical cpus?

act I think it's me that's daft (today). I take back my comment (I now
think 'top' will tell you logical CPUs but I can't test it on my
HT-turned off box!)

M



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