Re: Non-working CPU cores showing up

From	Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
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Subject	Re: Non-working CPU cores showing up
Date	2021-11-30 18:20 +0100
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On Tue, 2021-11-30 at 11:18 -0500, Paul M. Foster wrote:
> It appears you are correct. lscpu shows this CPU has 4 cores, and 2 
> threads per core. But it shows 8 CPUs. Silly.

It may be not what you were expecting but that doesn't automatically
make it 'silly'. Your processor chip can execute 8 independent programs
simultaneously, so I would consider it more silly to report it only
having 4 CPUs (or one if that was what you were expecting - for one
chip).

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Tixy

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Non-working CPU cores showing up "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2021-11-30 08:40 +0100
  Re: Non-working CPU cores showing up Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2021-11-30 08:50 +0100
  Re: Non-working CPU cores showing up Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2021-11-30 08:50 +0100
  Re: Non-working CPU cores showing up Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-11-30 09:40 +0100
  Re: Non-working CPU cores showing up piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-11-30 12:00 +0100
  Re: Non-working CPU cores showing up Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2021-11-30 12:10 +0100
  Re: Non-working CPU cores showing up Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-11-30 12:50 +0100
    Re: Non-working CPU cores showing up "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2021-11-30 17:30 +0100
      Re: Non-working CPU cores showing up Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com> - 2021-11-30 18:00 +0100
        Re: Non-working CPU cores showing up Dirk Neumann <neum_d@yahoo.de> - 2021-12-01 08:40 +0100
          Re: Non-working CPU cores showing up Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com> - 2021-12-01 09:40 +0100
      Re: Non-working CPU cores showing up Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2021-11-30 18:20 +0100

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