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Re: [PLUG] Identifying CPU features/model/etc. (WAS: Is the Atom an x86?)
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Gordon Dexter wrote:
> I have an N270, and it is definitely single core according to a
> well-cited Wikipedia article, but it shows up as two CPUs because it
> supports hyperthreading.
>
> I have an circa 2003 dual Xeon box that has four penguins at the top of
> the screen when booting, in spite of having only two physical CPUs,
> because those CPUs (which were made long before the advent of dual-core
> systems) still have hyperthreading.
>
does htop show different load levels for the two cores listed?
lyz and i were casually discussing this out-of-band and we couldn't
exactly understand how this could occur if it was a single-core proc,
hyperthreading or not..
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