Further Wierdness, was: Re: Download Question

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 09:54:58 +0200, user49b wrote:
>Hi Bill
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-core_processor
>
>So according to ARK 
>"http://ark.intel.com/products/80807/Intel-Core-i7-4790K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_40-GHz" 
>- your CPU has 4 Cores and 8 Threads.

Is this what some people often mention as "hyperthreading" or similar?
If so, I often read that this could cause issues for real-time usage
and should be turned of in the BIOS.
JFTR for controlling a CNC machine there likely is the need to use a
real-time patched kernel.

http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RealTime

Gene does know more about this topic than I do, so I Cc'ed him.

>"uname -a" pics up all.
>This will be similar info than what you are seeing in "/proc/cpuinfo".

No, it provides kernel information, hwinfo and other commands provide
hardware information, somebody already named another command in this
thread.