brent timothy saner on 8 Aug 2009 19:22:39 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Identifying CPU features/model/etc. (WAS: Is the Atom an x86?)


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brent timothy saner wrote:
> Art Alexion wrote:
> 
>> Anyway, htop reports the atom as dual core and actually shows different
>> processor use for each of the cores.  I don't think that is accurate.
> 
> 
> cat /proc/cpuinfo
> 
> if you see two processors, it's dual core.
> 
> additionally, if it's a Silverthorne (Z series), it's definitely
> single-core. if it's a Diamondville (N, 200, 300 series) it's definitely
>  dual-core. this information can be determined via /proc/cpuinfo and was
> collected from the wikipedia article mentioned in the previous thread.


whoops, small correction. only SOME of the N-series, it seems, are
dual-core.
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