Re: [PLUG] Dumb question about System Monitor

[Robert <mlists@zoominternet.net>]

On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:34:03 -0400
Doug Stewart <zamoose@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hyper Threading is the likely culprit.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Floyd Johnson <fljohnson3@isp.com> wrote:
> 
> > Dear PLUGgers,
> >
> > I've noticed across two Ubuntu releases and two Fedora releases, that
> > System Monitor is reporting more CPU cores than I'm expecting. An Intel
> > Atom N processor shows as two CPU cores and an Intel Core i3 processor
> > shows as four CPU cores.
> >
> > Do Dell laptops have something non-standard about them (I'm bracing for
> > it), or does System Monitor miscount (double-count?) for other lappies?

You are correct. My i7 show 8.


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