David Colon on 20 Mar 2013 12:08:55 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Dumb question about System Monitor

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Adam Zion <azion1995@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've noticed across two Ubuntu releases and two Fedora releases, that
> System Monitor is reporting more CPU cores than I'm expecting.

> Hyper Threading is the likely culprit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading

OK- any way to solve this?  

If by solve you mean disable, there is an option to turn off Hyper-Threading in your BIOS. You really don't want to do this however.

David 
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