On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 21:06 -0400, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> I have a dual xeon machine, each with 2 cores (not woodcrest --
> older), and hyperthreading is enabled (mainly because I never
> bothered to turn it off). RHEL5 is reporting in /proc/cpuinfo that I
> have 8 CPUs each with 1 core on it. PLPA therefore reports the same.
>
> Does anyone know why RHEL5 would report this configuration when I
> know for a fact that it's really 2 sockets, each socket with 4
> cores? RHEL4 actually reports it correctly (via /proc/cpuinfo -- 2
> sockets each with 4 cores), but of course it does not have the
> topology information so PLPA does not report it.
>
Can you send me the dmesg?
Ollie
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