>>After the upgrade the system is reporting that the machine has 8 cpu
>>instead of 4. I have been looking for some kind of information on the
>>Internet (www.google.com/linux) about that but I didn't have success.
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>I suspect that it is identifying 4 Xeon CPUs with Hyperthreading, which
>will correctly double the amount of processors your kernel thinks you
>have. Intel's Hyperthreading
>
>This ought to be a good thing... the only thing I don't quite understand
>is that I thought Hyperthreading was added in 2.4.17.
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Red Hat enabled basic hyperthreading support in their 2.4.9 eratta
kernels some where along the line. I just didn't think 1.4 Xeons did
HT. (Maybe the MP Xeons are different from the DP xeons.)
-- There is no such thing as obsolete hardware. Merely hardware that other people don't want. (The Second Rule of Hardware Acquisition) Sam Flory <sflory@rackable.com>
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