[NTLUG:Discuss] 2 Xeons look like 4

Michael Patrick michael at techiesplace.com
Tue Dec 23 13:35:38 CST 2003


On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:02:57PM -0600, Bishop, Cass wrote:
> I have 2 Intel Xeon processors in my server.  When I run top it says there
> are 4 cpu's.  Any idea why?  I see this in RedHat 7.3 and RedHat Enterprise
> Server 3.
>

Sounds like you have hyperthreading procs which to the OS looks like two.

Michael 



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