[TriLUG] Hyperthreading and Xeons

[Jeremy Portzer]

So, I got my first Xeon server recently, and although it's really dual
2.6 GHz, it shows as four processors to Linux.

Does this mean that I should treat it as a four-processor computer for
the purposes of starting processes?  For example, I have a program that
runs as many copies of itself as there are processors (but you have to
tell it how many processors there are).  Should I let it run four copies
or stick with two?

Any other consequences to hyperthreading I should know about?

Thanks,
Jeremy
-- 
/---------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Jeremy Portzer        jeremyp at pobox.com      trilug.org/~jeremy     |
| GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F  E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 |
\---------------------------------------------------------------------/
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://www.trilug.org/pipermail/trilug/attachments/20041013/2bd3a750/attachment.pgp>