Hi, Thank you for the answers.
Moshe. Michael Tewner wrote: > A recent version of the Linux kernel will see two CPU's but know > they're on the same physical processor. This is important especially > when you have multiple physical multi-core processors. > > Multiple cores share text segments- the kernel will try to keep > multiple threads of the same process on the same physical CPU. > > On 5/8/08, Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thursday 08 May 2008, Moshe Gorohovsky wrote: >>> Hi linux-il, >>> >>> Hag Sameah! >>> >>> I recently set up a linux PC with Intel Core2 Duo CPU. >>> >>> I had started the PC up from a knoppix v5.3.1 DVD. >>> Linux kernel on this DVD uses graphical framebuffer console and >>> shows two penguin images on start-up. My previous machine >>> showed a single penguin image. It was AMD K7 CPU (single core). >>> >>> Why linux kernel shows two penguin images on boot? >>> Does it count CPU cores? >>> >> In a way. The number of penguins is indicative of the number of processors >> the >> machine has. I'm getting two processors on my relatively old P4-2.4GHz >> machine which just has the so-called "Hyper-Threading" feature. >> >> Regards, >> >> Shlomi Fish >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ >> Parody on "The Fountainhead" - http://xrl.us/bjria >> >> The bad thing about hardware is that it sometimes work and sometimes >> doesn't. >> The good thing about software is that it's consistent: it always does not >> work, and it always does not work in exactly the same way. >> >> ================================================================= >> To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >> the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command >> echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
