11 Jan
2003
11 Jan
'03
13:18
Peter B Van Campen
The installation of SuSE 8.1 on a dual Xeon 2.4 GHz machine with 3ware IDE RAID 7500-4 (4 x 120 GB HD, booting from the RAID) ...
Out of curiosity, does the SMP kernel see *4* processors? We have seen that the P4s with Hyperthreading appear as 2 processors to the Linux kernel.
If CPU hyper-threading is enabled in the BIOS then the SuSE kernel reports 4 CPUs. According to the motherboard manual, this feature is disabled by default in the AwardBIOS. I haven't had time to do any performance tests yet. I don't expect any significant performance improvement with the additional 2 CPUs. -- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se