[mdlug] Dual Core with Hyper Threading

[Aaron Kulkis]

David Lane wrote:
> I have SUSE 10.1 and when I had then on the phone, they said the Desktop 
> was only licenced for 2 CPU's.
>  
> Does that mean 2 seprate CPU's?
>  

It would mean 2 installed systems....

But I've been using SuSE since SuSE 8.1 and have come across NOTHING
to imply this...what ARE you talking about???


> 
> */"Clinton V. Weiss" <cvweiss at gmail.com>/* wrote:
> 
>     On 5/8/07, 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.
>      >
>      > What do you guys think.
>      >
>      > David
> 
>     This is just an assumption - but I thought any correctly compiled
>     kernel could handle up to 64 cpu's?
> 
>     Please do correct me if I'm wrong.
>