Its called HyperThreading some nice and fancy technology from Intel. Cheers, Aly. On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 19:11, Frank Lanitz wrote: > Hi! > > Am Freitag, 5. Dezember 2003 02:53 schrieb Yeak Nai Siew: > > > - 2 x 2.8 Ghz Xeon > > > Then I tried RHEL AS 3, looks more stable, but the "top" also show > > 4 CPU. This time it shows the figure. Idle is around 98% to 100%. > > But the status run across all the 4 CPU (the physical CPU is only > > 2...) > > > > Why seeing 4, not 2? Is there a way to pass kernel parameter during > > bootup to force it to use 2 only? > > Thats because of the Xeon-CPU's. They login at the Computer as two > each one. > > Frank Lanitz > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- Aly Dharshi Systems Analyst Content Applications Group TELUS Technology & Operations "A good speech is like a good dress that's short enough to be interesting and long enough to cover the subject"
