Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 01:16:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 01:16:34 -0400 Received: from h24-67-14-151.cg.shawcable.net ([24.67.14.151]:9207 "EHLO webber.adilger.int") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 01:16:33 -0400 From: Andreas Dilger Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 23:14:53 -0600 To: Simon Matthews Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NFS Client mis-behaviour? Message-ID: <20020611051453.GV20388@turbolinux.com> Mail-Followup-To: Simon Matthews , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-GPG-Key: 1024D/0D35BED6 X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7A37 5D79 BF1B CECA D44F 8A29 A488 39F5 0D35 BED6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Jun 10, 2002 20:48 -0700, Simon Matthews wrote: > I have seen some strange behaviour from the NFS client. Sorry, can't help with the NFS problem. > We installed a new machine, 2 x 2.2GHz Xeon processors > > Another question: this system has 2 CPUs, yet the kernel detects 4. Any > ideas why? Probably because they are "Hyper Threaded" (HT) CPUs, which means they have (almost) 2 CPU cores per chip. The second core is not a full CPU, so it is not as fast as running a 4 CPU system, but reports are about 30% faster than just 2 CPUs. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/