P4 HT - should I see two processors in system monitor as with Win XP ?

[Ray Banks]

Thanks Martin, that did it. The kernel installed is now  2.6.8.1-3-686-smp

Now it will be interesting to see if I actually notice any difference !

Ray

 --- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at canonical.com> wrote: 
> Hi Ray!
> 
> On 2004-10-02 18:28 +0100, Ray Banks wrote:
> > It made little sense to me that Windows XP shows 2 processors in taskmanager - but anyway
> > Ubunto shows just the one in system monitor, and just the one as a result of: cat
> /proc/cpuinfo
> > Is this normal ? The system seems beautifully fast and responsive, no complaints there
> whatsoever.
> > Faster than Yoper Linux which is claimed to be the fastest out-of-the-box distro
> 
> If I remember correctly, you need to run a SMP (Symmetric
> MultiProcessing) kernel to fully utilize HT. Please do 
> 
>   sudo apt-get install linux-image-686-smp
> 
> and reboot.
> 
> Martin
> 
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