Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wednesday 25 April 2007 14:15:55 Paul Lussier wrote:
> <bmcculley at rcn.com> writes:
> > There are also a few dual cores with hyperthreading, Xeon was one
> > product line I noticed had such models.
>
> Yeah, I just checked one of our new machines which is a dual
> dual-core.  It reports 4 "GenuineIntel" CPUs in /proc/cpuinfo, all of
> which have the 'ht' flag set.
>
> So, in theory, if I were to enable HT in my kernel, I might well see 8 CPUs

Enable HT in kernel, and/or BIOS. The box I'm typing this email on has a pair 
of 3GHz dual-core woodcrest xeon procs in it, with HT enabled in the bios 
(and kernel), and I get 8 logical cpus.


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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com