[wplug] OT: Win2003 Svr CPUs?

[DK]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Rob Lines <rlinesseagate at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Chris Romano <romano.chris at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:42 PM, DK <wplug at curlynoodle.com> wrote:
> > > Sorry for the off-topic question, but this is really bugging me.  Does
> > >  anyone know why Windows 2003 Server shows two CPUs in the device
> > >  manager when running on a single P4 machine?
> >
> > This is just a stab in the dark but is HT turned on?  If so, the one
> > CPU looks like two to the OS
> >
> > Chris
> >
>
> I agree with Chris here.  We see the same thing under linux too though.  In
> a dual xeon that is dual core and supports HT it shows 8 cpus in top.
>
> Rob

Thanks much, HT support seems to be the culprit.  Strange though, I
had XP on the same machine, and I do not recall seeing the virtual CPU
with that OS.

Dave