[mdlug] Dual Core with Hyper Threading

Tue May 8 14:23:22 EDT 2007

David Lane wrote:
> Looking in the PC stores I see a huge drop in cpu prices and the New Duo 
> has Hyper threading so the operating systems "See" 4 CPU's. the last 
> time I checked some Linux Distro's only allow 2.
>  

Uh... the Linux SMP kernel is good for at least 16-way multi-processing...
In fact, I believe it will handle 32 CPUs.

> What do you guys think.
>  

About what?