juicy bits from dmesg: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 0 @ 2.90GHz (2893.05-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x206d7 Stepping = 7 Features=0xbfebfbff Features2=0x15bee3ff,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,,DCA,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,POPCNT,,XSAVE,> AMD Features=0x2c100800 AMD Features2=0x1 TSC: P-state invariant Cores per package: 16 Logical CPUs per core: 2 usable memory = 34297651200 (32708 MB) avail memory = 33086214144 (31553 MB) ACPI APIC Table: FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 32 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP/HT): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 2 cpu3 (AP/HT): APIC ID: 3 cpu4 (AP): APIC ID: 4 cpu5 (AP/HT): APIC ID: 5 cpu6 (AP): APIC ID: 6 cpu7 (AP/HT): APIC ID: 7 cpu8 (AP): APIC ID: 8 cpu9 (AP/HT): APIC ID: 9 cpu10 (AP): APIC ID: 10 cpu11 (AP/HT): APIC ID: 11 cpu12 (AP): APIC ID: 12 cpu13 (AP/HT): APIC ID: 13 cpu14 (AP): APIC ID: 14 cpu15 (AP/HT): APIC ID: 15 cpu16 (AP): APIC ID: 32 cpu17 (AP/HT): APIC ID: 33 cpu18 (AP): APIC ID: 34 cpu19 (AP/HT): APIC ID: 35 cpu20 (AP): APIC ID: 36 cpu21 (AP/HT): APIC ID: 37 cpu22 (AP): APIC ID: 38 cpu23 (AP/HT): APIC ID: 39 cpu24 (AP): APIC ID: 40 cpu25 (AP/HT): APIC ID: 41 cpu26 (AP): APIC ID: 42 cpu27 (AP/HT): APIC ID: 43 cpu28 (AP): APIC ID: 44 cpu29 (AP/HT): APIC ID: 45 cpu30 (AP): APIC ID: 46 cpu31 (AP/HT): APIC ID: 47 ioapic1 irqs 24-47 on motherboard ioapic0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard ioapic2 irqs 48-71 on motherboard and here's the lstopo output: [testlab@host-183 /home/nfshome/seb/tmp/hwloc]$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/nfshome/seb/tmp/hwloc/lib/ ./bin/lstopo Machine (32GB) PU L#0 (P#0) PU L#1 (P#1) PU L#2 (P#2) PU L#3 (P#3) PU L#4 (P#4) PU L#5 (P#5) PU L#6 (P#6) PU L#7 (P#7) PU L#8 (P#8) PU L#9 (P#9) Socket L#0 + L3 L#0 (20MB) L2 L#0 (256KB) + L1d L#0 (32KB) + L1i L#0 (32KB) + Core L#0 PU L#10 (P#10) PU L#11 (P#11) L2 L#1 (256KB) + L1d L#1 (32KB) + L1i L#1 (32KB) + Core L#1 PU L#12 (P#12) PU L#13 (P#13) L2 L#2 (256KB) + L1d L#2 (32KB) + L1i L#2 (32KB) + Core L#2 PU L#14 (P#14) PU L#15 (P#15) Socket L#1 + L3 L#1 (20MB) L2 L#3 (256KB) + L1d L#3 (32KB) + L1i L#3 (32KB) + Core L#3 PU L#16 (P#16) PU L#17 (P#17) L2 L#4 (256KB) + L1d L#4 (32KB) + L1i L#4 (32KB) + Core L#4 PU L#18 (P#18) PU L#19 (P#19) L2 L#5 (256KB) + L1d L#5 (32KB) + L1i L#5 (32KB) + Core L#5 PU L#20 (P#20) PU L#21 (P#21) L2 L#6 (256KB) + L1d L#6 (32KB) + L1i L#6 (32KB) + Core L#6 PU L#22 (P#22) PU L#23 (P#23) L2 L#7 (256KB) + L1d L#7 (32KB) + L1i L#7 (32KB) + Core L#7 PU L#24 (P#24) PU L#25 (P#25) L2 L#8 (256KB) + L1d L#8 (32KB) + L1i L#8 (32KB) + Core L#8 PU L#26 (P#26) PU L#27 (P#27) L2 L#9 (256KB) + L1d L#9 (32KB) + L1i L#9 (32KB) + Core L#9 PU L#28 (P#28) PU L#29 (P#29) L2 L#10 (256KB) + L1d L#10 (32KB) + L1i L#10 (32KB) + Core L#10 PU L#30 (P#30) PU L#31 (P#31)